On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 9:01:54 AM UTC+1, Luca De Feo wrote: > > > I deleted it as flame bait. I'm sick of people using sage-devel as a > > forum to attack others > > I'm sick of it too. But this kind of unilateral actions only fuels the > flame, it does not extinguish it. > > Especially given your position as a CEO of a for profit company, William. > Even though you do not have the power to do the same with Sage as what just > happened with MariaDB, the community is entitled with a legitimate > (unfounded, I believe) fear of SageMath Inc. trying to do something similar > at some point. This kind of unilateral censorship, although well > intentioned, can only spark more of those flames. >
Removing obvious flamebaits and spam really should not require a long consultation process. (Censorship is a different story; while there cannot be a clear border between a flamebait and a good argument; intentional misquoting, as in the case we are talking about, does qualify as an obvious flamebait, IMHO) Having said that, I would like to see a more regular setup on "official" sagemath googlegroups; more people should be able to moderate posts/posters. Repeated posting of flamebaits or/and other obviously damaging things should result in placing the poster under moderation (i.e. posts by this posters are held in a moderation queue, and released only upon moderator's approval). Should we start a process of nominating/electing moderators? Dima > > Any long lived community on the net has moderators, be they elected or > co-opted. No one moderator takes this kind of decisions alone. Can we try, > once again, to start a process to become a well behaved community? There is > no shortage of very good examples of well behaved, long lived, FOSS > communities. Think Debian, think Software carpentry, ... > > Luca > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
