Hi Jonathan, On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:16:16AM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 06:29:35AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > It can be useful to note the names of people who can't seem to > > prevent themselves from writing argumentative and massively > > off-topic responses over and over again. It's a relatively small but > > vocal list. > > Yes... but, > > a) the whole list is small and vocal, unfortunately > b) killfiling on an individual basis (which I do) does not improve the > quality > of the list for others (nor Debian's reputation)
I completely agree. This small group of people are ruining it for everyone and it's not something that can be fixed on a mailing list that doesn't commit to ruthless banning of off-topic postings. :( It's a pity that the Debian Shapado instance at https://ask.debian.net didn't take off more than it did (and now seems to be completely broken). That does at least allow Stack Overflow-style scoring of answers to keep things mostly on-topic. There is also the Debian tag on Stack Overflow, though that is of course hosted on non-free software. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/debian Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting