On 17.5.2011 20:21, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
centos-bounces@centos.org wrote:
While this sounds like humorous way to deal with the problem, what about all of us silent users who just watch the list for news and generally ignore the bonus nonsense that makes the list...
We the silent would miss out on important news...
Clearly, this would apply to the POSTING not reading abilities.
AND, we would necessarily start out with "adult" posting abilities.
What needs development: 1: After some time, if my posts irritate you (or yours me) then we post to the centos-moderator@centos.org address (currently non-existent), with a message subject of KARMA PLUS or KARMA MINUS and a message body of a name; 2: said name has their Karma adjusted accordingly. 3: At some configurable threshold of negative Karma, my (or your) posting rights turn off and we become a moderated poster. 4: If there is no moderator, we're made mute. 5: Every week, the negative Karma scores have +1 added; making the moderated status temporary. 6: No poster can adjust the karma of another poster more than once per week.
It ain't a perfect specification, but it'd be an improvement on what we have.
I am mostly silent and I am not pleased about many things that were said, but this is too much. I have to raise my voice.
If I understand correctly the things some people say is annoying you, so you think about ways to censoring them. Quite a low level of tolerance and thats baddest karma.
Maybe some of you feel assaulted, maybe some of you feel annoyed. I think pretty much everyone get peeved by threads like this but likely for different reasons. So many notions, so many slanting views, and also so many self conceptions. And this is a good thing in my opinion. Do not kill the C(ommunity) in CentOS, please.
Yes the traffic to noise ratio has been quite low lately, some things are repeated over and over and this is annoying me too, but the Noise ratio is quite high with purely technical things too, IMO. People could read manuals, people could search archives, etc. But I am drifting, back on topic: Please stop thinking about moderating == censoring.