On 24/10/25 16:36, Страхиња Радић wrote:
Дана 25/10/23 10:19PM, Polarian написа:
What you come to realise though is OpenBSD's complete rejection of the
idea of a Code of Conduct is not a downside but a blessing. People tell
you exactly what they think of you, they do not sugar coat it, they do
not catch you up in a situation where if you defend yourself you could
be punished for violating the CoC.
This. This is how it used to be on the entire Internet, before the Dark
Times. Though IIRC, I feel like trolling and the abuses of freedom used
to be less frequent as well.
It's how it should be.
Others have made the mistake of believing efficiency lies in conducting
an email list in the same vein as a corporate communication medium.
Big mistake!
A community project is reliant on the sense of community generated
through its communication mediums.
I recall the days when I'd wake up to a debian-user list with 300+ messages.
Many of them had nothing to do with Debian, but everything to do with
generating community.
Flame wars were magnificent, with wrecks, of what were once human
beings, lying everywhere.
And from that, the conversations that did bear on Debian were vibrant
with ideas generated that a development community could thrive on.
Debian-user isn't as much as a sad shadow of itself, now.
Latest postings bear on `why are there no postings on this list any more?'
The OpenBSD list often has more messages on it.
Cheers!
