On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Luke Kanies <l...@madstop.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > The underlying assumption of membership in any community is that your > participation is at worst neutral, and if possible positive. > Communities, online or off, generally do what they can to protect > themselves from detrimental influences, which is where policies, > politeness, moderators, and all that come into play. > > Puppet's community has been both fortunate and awesome, in that it > requires almost no moderation or control; we've only had to kick a > couple of people out of our IRC channel and they were clearly just > insane or spammers, and we've never had to remove anyone from our > mailing list other than spammers. > > We've recently had some problems where one or two people are > maintaining their presence in the Puppet community solely as a way to > recruit people out of Puppet and into their community, at the expense > of ours, and I think we need a straightforward community policy on this. > > Overlapping communities are awesome, and I'm all for your encouraging > Puppet community members to join other communities *in addition to > ours*, but it seems a bit insane for us to support people coming into > our community just to evangelize competing products and communities. > > My take is that if your participation in our community is *solely* for > purposes of shrinking it by drawing people into your community at the > expense of ours, then you should be kicked from our community. > > What do others think? Should it be acceptable to privately contact > members of our community, encouraging them to leave?
Having been waffling a bit on this question myself, I'd like to say that I agree with those who say ignore it. Community members should publicize attempts to speak to them that they feel are in poor taste, by responding on-list. The Puppet community is pretty chill and welcoming, let us strive to maintain that. I don't think a specific effort needs to be made to make non-contributing folks who evangelize for another project go away -- this is a self-limiting problem, people only have so much patience for that crap. Reductive Labs as a company should deal with attempts to snipe their clients away however they see fit; that's not as much a Puppet community issue (but feel free to tell us about it, because it's sleazy as hell and enough to make me evangelize *against* the perpetrators.) My $.02, of course. --Another Paul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
