On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 23:11 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 16:56 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > George - I think that you are very offensive towards people who > > volunteer their time. It's easy to understand why Fedora contributors > > don't actually want to participate on the user lists and get abused by > > unappreciative, sarcastic and combative users. > > How do we fix this? > > - moderation? > - a code of conduct? > - ? > > I've found some of the behavior of a few on this list to be quite > embarrassing. To me, it seems an alien island in the middle of the > Fedora community that I know to be a genuinely warm, friendly, and > welcoming place. > > Do we want new users to witness this kind of behavior? They are directed > towards this list right now via a number of different pointers. My team > is planning to redesign the Fedora website for Fedora 14, and I'm not > sure we can in good conscience continue to point new users to this list > [1]. > > Does anyone have any ideas on how to improve this situation? We've had a > small few but notable trolls in the past 6 years on the Fedora > art/design lists, and the one solution that seemed to work best was > placing badly-behaving folks on moderation for a few weeks. I don't know > if that would be the appropriate solution here, though. For example, do > we have anyone willing to take on the responsibility of moderating? ---- you can't make people behave so the better notion is to try to ignore them or get a thick enough skin to shout them down without losing your own cool - as in calling people names. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
