[haiku-development] Re: Time to move this to a moderated list?
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 09:15:44 +0100
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:30:54PM -0800, scottmc wrote:
> I think most of the committers to Haiku would agree that perhaps it's time
> to move the dev mailing list to being moderated for non-committers?
I don't strongly agree. We have a single troll here, and sure he is a
bit annoying. But switching this list to moderated mode may have even
more annoying consequences.
1) Someone actually has to do the moderation. We all have limited time
and can't be available quickly to do this. This means a delay on
potentially interesting messages from non-committers, which has a risk
of making people feel that the project is trying to isolate itself from
the community. In theory, the main haiku list would counteract this, but
a lot of the devs already unsubscribed from there.
2) There is only one single guy (or at least one single guy at a time)
being annoying. Switching the whole list to moderated would be a victory
for him, in some sense.
At this point, it seems easier and more efficient to ignore trolling
attempts on this list on the receiver side (this only works if everyone
does it, however). Also, there were private mails to some members of the
developer team as well, so we can't make the problem disappear by just
moderating the list.
So, I'm ok with moderation with the following conditions:
- There is a big enough team of people willing to do the moderation, and
not introducing too much delay in message delivery.
- We should whitelist people after they have proven they are not trolls,
by sending one or two reasonably useful contributions. If the trolls
try to get whitelisted this way, it still results in some useful
messages being sent. And of course the whitelisting can be revoked
later on.
--
Adrien.
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