RA Stehmann wrote:
I only refuse the way of acting Jörg wants to instruct me. We discussed that topic on the list. To ban an email address isn't very effective, because that person is able to join the mailing list with another email address.
If the two of you disagree on how to handle a troll, the troll wins, you two lose, and the project loses (since we don't want to pollute the lists with long discussions on how to handle a troll).
If he makes zero useful posts, just ban him and get rid of the problem. Sure he can register with a new address, and this is why Michael is correct in saying that people should really learn to ignore posts and not having public discussions on whether to ban him. But banning him will show that you are all on the same side.
See http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html and if I were the moderator I would send a public reminder (and clearly you did discuss it on the list already, so the person is aware) and then ban him. The page above says what he should do if he feels abused by the moderator.
But some people react very angry. That seems to "feed the troll". Now Jörg confides me anymore and that's very irksome for the germanophone community, There are sometimes strong disputes between him and me.
Don't let any existing good relationship in the community be altered by a simple troll. This is what he wants to do!
(All of this is generic; I haven't read the users-de archives for this specific case, but you two seem to agree that the individual is not posting anything useful)
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