On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Aaron W. Swenson <titanof...@gentoo.org> wrote: > According to Merriam-Webster: > > self-evident > adjective | self-ev·i·dent | ˌself-ˈe-və-dənt , -ˌdent > evident without proof or reasoning >
The version I used is taken from http://dd.pangyre.org/s/self-evident.html. > You have been a part of the conversations that devolved into the > non-technical, and even started your own decidedly non-technical > discussion on this list[1] where you’ve seen that rules for moderation, > or at least defining the expectations of moderators and participants, > would have been beneficial. > Yes, it was non-technical, but it was related to Gentoo and most importantly the stability of my operating system, which is why I bothered to comment. I want to stress I am not opposed to moderation, but so far the reason why things are happening and the specific things being proposed do not seem to be well justified. If, like in the past, decisions will be enforced more or less arbitrarily and opaquely, I can only see this causing more problems. I suppose the problems may be quieter. Cheers, R0b0t1
