RFC: Proposed comment policy change
RFC: Proposed comment policy change
Posted Nov 20, 2004 1:25 UTC (Sat) by ikm (guest, #493)Parent article: RFC: Proposed comment policy change
That is, you would like to drop some useful signal in favor of the people who would like to live in the cozy non-inflammatory all-conforming world? I would just say that these people won't gain such a world anyway -- they should start attending to their psychological problems instead, but any lost signal is always lost, with no way to tell if it was worthy or not. Oh well.
If you just need to raise funds, I wouldn't mind disabling the thing.
Posted Nov 20, 2004 2:13 UTC (Sat)
by philips (guest, #937)
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Have linux-kernel mail list tried to clean-up trolling - some luminaries would be shut out of
lkml. Hans Reiser comes first to my mind. A. Kuznetsov, who authored huge chunks of network
stack, is just very touchy/picky/flamatory person. Andre Hedrick produced much of Linux's ide
layer and probably even more noise on lkml.
Creative people always have edges. So noise, pain, flames and abuse do follow them.
You actually reminded me one interesting observation: high profile trolling/flaming comes from
people who have high profile. Low profile types as long as they are trolling/flaming are staying
low profile - so no-one pays attention.
RFC: Proposed comment policy change