Novell changes leadership, stays Linux course (Linux-Watch)

Posted Jun 23, 2006 1:52 UTC (Fri) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
In reply to: Novell changes leadership, stays Linux course (Linux-Watch) by arcticwolf
Parent article: Novell changes leadership, stays Linux course (Linux-Watch)

I've never been sure if he is or not. His posts have never been coherent enough to really tell if he is a troll, a crackpot, or none of the above. A blacklist may not be necessary. A simple limit on the number of spelling and grammar errors may suffice.

Novell changes leadership, stays Linux course (Linux-Watch)

Posted Jun 23, 2006 6:46 UTC (Fri) by pyxis (guest, #15886) [Link]

a solution can be a button to report bad posts (as in ubuntuforums.org)

Novell changes leadership, stays Linux course (Linux-Watch)

Posted Jun 23, 2006 9:06 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Either he's a crackpot of great intensity, or he's a troll.

Personally I'm inclining to the trolldom opinion: his outbreak of racism was being a bit too obvious.

Novell changes leadership, stays Linux course (Linux-Watch)

Posted Jun 23, 2006 14:14 UTC (Fri) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link] (2 responses)

Sorry, it may not have been entirely clear what I meant - I was talking about a personal blacklist associated with each account so that people could decide that they'd want to screen out comments made by certain others when logged in (similar to the "ignore" feature in various bulletin board systems, or the "foe" concept on Slashdot), nothing more.

Just to clarify things... :)

Novell changes leadership, stays Linux course (Linux-Watch)

Posted Jun 24, 2006 14:28 UTC (Sat) by beoba (guest, #16942) [Link]

Or /ignore on IRC

Novell changes leadership, stays Linux course (Linux-Watch)

Posted Jun 29, 2006 16:35 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]

A long time ago, this was simply called a KILL-file. See http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/K/kill-file.html

Man, I feel like I'm getting old. :-)

Joachim