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Re: State of the GNUnion 2020


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: State of the GNUnion 2020
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 22:50:03 +0100
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Alexandre François Garreau, le sam. 22 févr. 2020 22:43:36 +0100, a ecrit:
> Le samedi 22 février 2020, 21:10:33 CET Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > Alexandre François Garreau, le sam. 22 févr. 2020 19:21:18 +0100, a 
> ecrit:
> > > I recall some of them (likely one of those you’re thinking about is
> > > the
> > > same as I),
> > 
> > Possibly.
> 
> FDN right?

Yes.

> > > > > you prefer to “aknowledge” this “will have to be done at some
> > > > > point”.  Is if there wasn’t any middle ground for compromision
> > > > > there.
> > > > 
> > > > Sometimes you can't find any.
> > > 
> > > No, you can’t know.
> > 
> > Strictly speaking, sure, but at some point when things only get worse
> > and worse, it's way better to resort to exclusion than continuing to see
> > a project get stuck due to only one person, even if with several dozen
> > years you might find a solution.
> 
> However I’m still dubitative about the fact a single person could get ALL 
> A PROJECT project stuck alone, without exception.

I was indeed taking an extreme example. But a much simpler case would be
somebody calling everything names, thus driving away newcomers, who will
wonder that the heck this project is about.

> > How different is this from exclusion?
> 
> It is different in that that anybody have the free choice of moderation, or 
> not.  You could have your own moderation filters overriding those of your 
> trusted friends, you could change the amount of trust you give to each, 
> etc.

Ok, so newcomers would have to know about it and make it work to avoid
the nasty messages?

Samuel



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