Hi! > And yes, I am aware that a large part of the concern is the definition > of "malicious jackass who hurts people" and "hostile, insulting storm".
Not only that. But that even if we have the definition, nobody walks around with a convenient label of "malicious jackass who hurts people" on their foreheads. That's not where the problem lies. What we'd be dealing with is people coming to us complaining said something offensive to them (or to somebody) at resource X, which may not even be public, conveniently providing only evidence that supports it, and we'd have to decide whether it's true or not, knowing no context, no prior history, no full information about what happened, etc. And since we declared universal jurisdiction, not taking sides is no longer an option. > There *is* a risk of that turning into a "morality clause". That's > true. But it could go either direction on such matters, not necessarily > just in the "evil PC witch hunt" direction. That's where, as has been That's not exactly encouraging phrase - it's like saying "take this pill, it would not *necessarily* kill you, it could go both ways". Would you take it? > Do you think we can find 5 people in the PHP community that we can trust > to make fair decisions (NOT that we would always agree with, but that > are fair) that don't fall too far into "thought policing", in *any* > direction? If not, then the community is already lost beyond all hope Again, as I explained already before, it's not a matter of people being "corrupt" or "unfair". It's the matter of dealing with uncertain information and also - unfortunately - potentially some dishonest players trying to abuse the system. People can be misled and manipulated - that happens routinely to much more robust systems than ours, such as courts - so ignoring it and not having security against it besides "we are all good people, we can do no wrong" looks naive to me. -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
