Please, someone confirm for me that he was not put on moderation because of his views, but rather because of his behavior!
-Rich Holton On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Peter Gervai <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 17:50, Andre Engels <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> I'm not sure whether I am though. This message plus the discussion > >> that was the base of it has cost me 50 Euros in things I broke > >> throwing them through my room, plus a severe loss of feeling of > >> self-worth. I don't think that's worth it. > > > > By the way I'm sure there are several of us who agree in Jefrrey being > > very much off limits, offending, and doing it at the wrong place, > > which is usually shortened as "being a troll". > > > > Wikipedia, wikimedia and the people around here are working with, > > based on and most definitely agree with open content and other free > > licenses, the whole project lives of and based on them, so starting a > > propaganda against it _HERE_ is definitely a very unwise and offending > > move. Without much thinking it's obvious that it will generate strong > > emotions, harsh attacks, and lots of ad hominem debates, and nothing, > > really nothing good will be created as a result. > > > > Not accepting the fact that people who create open content are going > > to fight against businesses who try to destroy open content is a > > clueless thing to do. Debating it is similarly clueless act. You do > > not start debate someone's existence with him. > > > > I (among others) strongly agree in Jeffrey being moderated until he > > realise that his propaganda really does not belong here. It is against > > almost everybody's world view around here, and offending a whole > > community with reasons we consider at best baseless is extremely > > counterproductive. > > > > > > And, as a sidenote, we're not pirates, robbers, murderers or rapers. > > [And other artifically emotion-filled buzzwords supporting the > > closed-content based businesses, pick your favourite.] We _create_ > > open content. We _create_ copyrighted materials (and license them for > > free). Jeffrey, among others, is using our products, our content. That > > is what Creative Commons is about. To protect our interests, business > > or other. And who are you, or anyone, to attack our interests based on > > our own content...? > > > > And as a different sidenote: if you hate it, stop using it. Try to > > live your life without using open source, open content. Go on. First, > > stop using this list, because it is run on open source software, > > running on open source servers. Then you may well unplug your internet > > connection, since good chance is that you connect to one of such > > servers. You mostly better stop using the web, since the servers are > > open source by large. Stop email. You may even have to avoid some > > mobile phones, Tv set top boxes, DVD players, music players, and so > > on. Oh and avoid Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia content, and mostly > > all wikis. Fortuinately you can eat and drink and breath. But avoid > > computers since they'll surely pollute your business-based pureness > > with open content filth. *smirk* > > I first checked is he a board member of WM AU. Fortunately, he is not. > > I am agreed with everything, except that there are some of us who > politically support free usage of copyrighted material. And I didn't > know that Lessig supports it. Thanks to Ottava, I am positively > changing my position toward Lessig. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
