Handling attacks on a community

Posted Mar 18, 2020 9:30 UTC (Wed) by yoe (guest, #25743)
Parent article: Handling attacks on a community

Unsurprisingly, Daniel has now added LWN to his list of targets:

https://debian.community/debian-community-news-is-indepen...

If you ever run into him, run for the hills. Don't pause to wait and see what happens.

Handling attacks on a community

Posted Mar 19, 2020 3:41 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Amazing. A sneering narcissistic quip targeting just about every post in this thread, like some bad cartoon villain. Or a 4chan teenager throwing a public tantrum. The “anonymity” suits him well.

Clearly he's trying to make the history books like the previous worst troll, that one from OpenOffice I can't remember the name of any more. ;-)

Handling attacks on a community

Posted Mar 19, 2020 21:58 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Wow that's unethical. He talks about "a long standing volunteer" without once suggesting that *he's talking about himself*.

Handling attacks on a community

Posted Mar 20, 2020 0:55 UTC (Fri) by karkhaz (subscriber, #99844) [Link]

The post appears to be at least somewhat a response to [0], which clarifies what Debian's official communication channels are.

It was posted on https://debian.community. But I found another copy of it on a site I hadn't seen before, https://uncensored.debian.community [1]. That site's design looks confusingly similar to Debian's official web pages. It aggregates real blog posts by Debian project members, interspersed with "debian community news" posts, without any distinction. The "community news" post that you mentioned was posted immediately after the aggregated post from bits.d.o.

The sheer volume and extent of this person's effort is baffling. Best wishes to everybody affected.

[0] https://bits.debian.org/2020/03/official-communication-ch...
[1] https://uncensored.debian.community/#https://debian.commu...

Handling attacks on a community

Posted Mar 20, 2020 22:04 UTC (Fri) by martin.langhoff (guest, #61417) [Link] (1 responses)

He recently started a few Fedora-Devel threads requesting his blog be reinstanted on Fedora Planet (it got dropped over the posts about Debian) and it all led to a big rant on how Debian has treated him unfairly.

Oh man, got to let go of it.

Handling attacks on a community

Posted Mar 22, 2020 13:15 UTC (Sun) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

The thing is, in the middle of that fedora-devel thread (and some others) Pocock raised appropriate and relevant technical feedback and concerns about the work he was doing for/with Fedora systems.

Unfortunately, he seems constitutionally incapable of leaving it at that, projecting onto everyone else the behaviour he's aptly escalating himself.