On Feb 18, 2014 4:12 PM, "C. Scott Ananian" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> There are multiple readings of "Assume Good Faith".   I think pi zero was
> pointing out that it can be used to justify 'violent' communications. "Oh,
> sure, it might seem like I just punched you in the nose, but you must AGF
> and respond as I were just trying to kill a mosquito that happened to have
> landed there."  David Gerard's "stupidity" reading of AGF would be,
> "...respond as if you just clumsily knocked into my nose, since clumsiness
> is more common than malice".   Both variants of the assumption can be
> abused by malicious actors.
>

Well i agree with your point, i think malicious actors are pretty rare in
our community.

Submitting a (useful) patch is hard work. This cuts down on the number of
trolls significantly.

-bawolff
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