On Wed, Jan 01, 2025 at 09:29:01AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
Please don't feed the trolls.
It's a tough line to walk. On the one hand, yeah, we don't want to feed the trolls. But if the trolls keep going anyway with no sign they will stop, we run the risk of implicitly supporting unchallenged narratives. A person walking in fresh is told repeatedly that debian capriciously suppresses people just trying to help, and is hostile to questions, newcomers, whatever. Should they just believe that? If they see post after post of (the same) people posting problems that nobody can or will solve, do they feel encouraged to post their own questions? The people who have been around just delete the noise on autopilot--which is certainly a useful coping mechanism--but where does that leave new arrivals and what does that do to the basic character of the list? The internet has yet to really come up with a good answer to any of this.
