Zero Piraeus <z <at> etiol.net> writes: > > I don't believe that killfiles are a sufficient response in this > situation. > > I can, of course, stop Nikos' posts reaching me, and without too much > hassle also stop replies to his posts reaching me. He would, however, > continue to pollute the list in public, and his posts, whether replied > to or not at the volume he's now sending them, would continue to damage > the reputation of the list and, ultimately, I think possibly kill it.
As an occasional reader (and even more occasional poster), I agree with this. As far as I'm concerned, if I were the list owner and if it were easy to ban him, I would already have banned him for a long time. I believe it is not desirable to let poisonous posters do their thing, even if "they might improve". The time spent trying to improve a troll is time not spent caring about and helping other, more benevolent posters, which makes it really harmful to the community (not only pointless) trying to improve a troll. As for the "but banning him would impede free expression" argument, I'd say that people who want a "perfectly free" discussion space can always open their own. We'll see how well it fares in practice, but I'm not holding my hopes very high :-) Regards Antoine. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
