> On Jan 7, 2016, at 10:37, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Paul M. Jones <pmjone...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Jan 7, 2016, at 10:17, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> If someone starts to put bad pressure on another person (harassment, >>> insults, personal attacks, etc) trying to make this person either >>> abandon an idea, RFC or even to force this person to leave the >>> project, the attacker will most likely use non php.net's channel. >> >> In which case there are existing means at their disposal: blocking, muting, >> junk-foldering, reporting to the channel owner for abuse, etc. > > Indeed. And it is also obvious that we cannot take actions to block > the harasser on non php.net's channels. However this was not my point. > >> If the harasser cannot actually reach their target, does that not have the >> same effect? > > No, it does not have the same effect.
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