Re: [Nix-dev] Banning people from the mailinglist?

2017-04-05 Thread Guillaume Maudoux (Layus)
+1 I read once an article showing that to avoid proliferation of annoying messages, the best action was to ignore them. Banning people just makes them want to fight harder against the perceived injustice. When new (non-constructive) "fuck systemd" messages come to this mailing list, I will d

Re: [Nix-dev] Banning people from the mailinglist?

2017-04-04 Thread Arnold Krille
Hi, On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 14:22:48 +0200 Profpatsch wrote: > On 17-04-04 10:05am, Matthias Beyer wrote: > > Can we just ban the (non-constructive) "fuck systemd" people? I > > mean... nobody benefits from this kind of behaviour and it creates > > frustration all over the place. Nobody gets happy w

Re: [Nix-dev] Banning people from the mailinglist?

2017-04-04 Thread zimbatm
I'm proud of how mature the nix community is, it takes some effort to not respond to hate with more hate. Share the love :D On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, 17:05 Alexey Shmalko, wrote: > I recommend reading You Are What You Write[1] and Difficult People[2] > chapters of Producing Open Source Software[3] by

Re: [Nix-dev] Banning people from the mailinglist?

2017-04-04 Thread Alexey Shmalko
I recommend reading You Are What You Write[1] and Difficult People[2] chapters of Producing Open Source Software[3] by Karl Fogel. They describe how to handle similar situations; banning people is extreme measures, and most situations can be resolved without that. [1]: http://producingoss.com/en/y

Re: [Nix-dev] Banning people from the mailinglist?

2017-04-04 Thread Oliver Charles
Matthias Beyer writes: > We had the systemd conversation endless times now. > > We all know that some people don't like systemd and other ones like > it. > > Can we just ban the (non-constructive) "fuck systemd" people? I > mean... nobody benefits from this kind of behaviour and it creates > f

Re: [Nix-dev] Banning people from the mailinglist?

2017-04-04 Thread Moritz Ulrich
Matthias Beyer writes: > We had the systemd conversation endless times now. > > We all know that some people don't like systemd and other ones like > it. > > Can we just ban the (non-constructive) "fuck systemd" people? I > mean... nobody benefits from this kind of behaviour and it creates > f

Re: [Nix-dev] Banning people from the mailinglist?

2017-04-04 Thread Profpatsch
On 17-04-04 10:05am, Matthias Beyer wrote: > Can we just ban the (non-constructive) "fuck systemd" people? I > mean... nobody benefits from this kind of behaviour and it creates > frustration all over the place. Nobody gets happy with these kind of > messages. > > Is there a technical possibili

[Nix-dev] Banning people from the mailinglist?

2017-04-04 Thread Matthias Beyer
We had the systemd conversation endless times now. We all know that some people don't like systemd and other ones like it. Can we just ban the (non-constructive) "fuck systemd" people? I mean... nobody benefits from this kind of behaviour and it creates frustration all over the place. Nobody g