On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 12/05/2017 11:41 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >> On 12/05/2017 11:37 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> Honestly, I'm not really a big fan of even on-topic posts from people >>> who have caused a lot of harm to others in private. I'm not sure >>> which is the lesser evil but do we really want a community where we >>> tolerate absolutely any kind of abuse of other members? >> >> We do not, but that presumes actual abuse has been demonstrated. >> "spamming the mailing list", where the posts are regarding Gentoo, isn't >> automatically abuse because some people are uncomfortable about the >> information being presented, or they disagree with it. >> > > This whole email thread is actually one of the examples of where split > lists is a bad thing, the original message was cross-posted between > gentoo-project and gentoo-dev with a reply-to for gentoo-dev. Resulting > in split discussions across the lists. The overall discussion should've > been in -project to begin with. >
Certainly, though if our lists actually were moderated it would be a non-issue because all the replies to the off-topic list would have been deleted. Mailing lists aren't great for moderation in general though, because it is impossible to delete a post after it has been distributed. In a forum something like this would be easily solved by just moving the thread to the right place, deleting posts after the fact, and so on. -- Rich
