* Alexander Wirt: " Re: Pride Month Discussion has Run its Course" (Sat, 6 Jul 2019 20:00:58 +0200):
> On Tue, 02 Jul 2019, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
>
> > On 15451 March 1977, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> >
> [...]
> > > Thats possible, but imho not a reason to kill the thread.
> >
> > It is a very good reason to do so, and its sad that our listmasters
> > aren't more active in shutting down threads that repeat and repeat and
> > repeat all the same things ever again, every other month.
> > It would save so much energy that could be used so much more useful.
> >
> > Same as getting rid of the "all lists are open" thing, something that
> > was nice in the past, but has definitely lost its value long ago.
> I can not do more than disagree. If you don't like a thread, killfile it.
> But using censorship, banning, blocking threads you/someone don't like, just
> for the reason *you* don't find them useful is in my eyes just wrong and is
> some kind of censorship and should not be done in an open project like
> debian.
>
> But that is my personal mindset I am coming from. If such a mindset is
> outdated nowadays and not wanted anymore I offer to resign as a listmaster.
Others have already answered, I have the feeling I have to step in at this
point, too:
I think you are doing exactly your job as listmaster to not influence
discussions, but merely control the correct functionality with respect to
respect and list guidelines.
Thanks,
Mathias
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