Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:06:35 +0000 From: "Benjamin M. A'Lee" <bma+lists@subvert.org.uk> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors Message-ID: <20081215120635.GC22666@jagger.subvert.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20081215124755.Q53356@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20081212205614.GB37185@kokopelli.hydra> <31371229120906@webmail12.yandex.ru> <87iqppdlzh.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20081213002037.F5665@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081213092104.GC39031@kokopelli.hydra> <20081213103054.B8893@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081213194302.GA51063@kokopelli.hydra> <20081213122621.001352ad@gom.home> <20081215061228.GE5527@kokopelli.hydra> <20081215124755.Q53356@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:49:43PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> I think that can be handled quite easily by community social pressure, >> and moderation would just set a precedent for "it's someone else's job". > > moderation is needed. Things like "community social pressure" simply > doesn't. Like with democracy - those who are more common and louder will > takeover, no matter if it make sense or not. > > It's already happening on that group that's why i talk about starting > moderation to remove all posts that are not about group topic! Group topic? As far as I can tell, the topic is "user questions" (according to http://lists.freebsd.org/ and the List-Id header). Where exactly is it defined what those questions may be about? -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: bma@subvert.org.uk web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 "...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong." -- Richard Dawkins
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