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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: apologyRe: apology
From: Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:58:26 -0500 David Hall wrote: > > Perhaps off-list discussion is not the answer - but (IMHO) clearly > on-list discussion is not the answer. > There's more or less only three options though - "tell the user off list there's a rule they need to be aware of", "tell the user on list there's a rule they need to be aware of" and "don't tell a user there's a rule they need to be aware of." There are probably things we can do to better make people aware of it in advance, but when it comes down to someone who's missed them all, we have to pick one of those three. The last one isn't going to make someone stop top posting, and between the first two despite these long discussions the public one has had the higher success rate for me. The only way I can see to avoid these long discussions is to actually be *harsher* about the whole matter, which I think would upset people even more. Something along the lines of "top posting on this list is not allowed. If you have any questions on how to avoid it, you're welcome to post those. Any statements about the topic of top-posting other than questions on how to resolve your behaviour will result in you, or the poster's, loss of ability to post." The problem is, in part, human behaviour. How do you stop someone from objecting to a rule they disagree with if you don't want to punish them simply for having an opinion? Do we want to make it against the rules to discussion revision of the rules? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.html Received on 2009-07-15 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |