Handling attacks on a community

Unfortunately, the project has recently had a few very toxic episodes where I think the better solution would be to just expel the members who keep stoking the flames, regarding of past contributions. The way they keep people away is, I think, a bigger loss than the potential contributions of less abrasive replacements.

This of course is not the DPL's responsibility under the constitution, unless it gets so bad it falls under "3. Make any decision which requires urgent action." But Sam did use his power under "9. Lead discussions amongst Developers."[1] to quench toxic threads on the mailing lists, and in my personal opinion too many times waited 2 or 3 mails too long.

[1] I assume that is the article Sam used to declare threads closed, from my reading of the constitution.