On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 1:52 AM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 06:22:57PM -0600, Eldon Koyle wrote: > > I have noticed a pattern on Debian lists where we see: > > [...] > > > I would like to propose that we shorten this cycle by simply adding a rule > > to bounce messages to public lists at #3 [...] > > The problem with this is... who is going to do that? > > - If you have just a few in charge, their biases will dominate: > what is and is not offending is bound to interpretation; > - if you have some formal process in charge (voting, etc.), > someone has to bear its burden; > - etc. etc. > > In short, you are posing That One Very Hard Question™: how does > a group of people manage "getting along together"? > > You're not the first one to pose it, mind you :-) > > I think the current set-up in the Debian mailing lists is a good > equilibrium: there is a moderation, but it only intervenes in > exceptional cases. Usually, intervention is from the participants > in the list. > <snip>
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I think I did a bad job of explaining. I'm talking about English words that universally accepted as swearing. I have not seen this class of words used constructively in lists, and they are already forbidden. I don't think it would be fair to ask moderators to police these words. There would be a cost to them both in time and in relationships with others. I feel these words always contribute to a toxic environment, however they are being used intentionally by people I respect who hold a lot of influence in this group, in open defiance of the accepted rules. Using a small shell script (or regex) to catch the strongest of language (that should never be used anyway) seems like a simple way to slow escalation in many cases. -- Eldon
