<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi.</div><div><br><div>> Posts about Richard Stallman are off-topic and will not be allowed. </div><div><br></div><div>This is... plain out wrong. Off topic means off topic.</div><div>A RMS reply to a thread about RMS is NOT off topic.</div><div>If you want to shutdown the discussion, just say so.</div><div>The fact that RMS is not "the issue" (he's surely _an_ issue...) does not change that <br></div><div>the kde community email was about RMS. I sent an email 10 hours <b>before</b> this apology. <br></div><div>It was rejected just<b> now.</b> As offtopic.</div><div><br></div><div>I did not like that thread, but this handling of the situation is plain out bad. This apology</div><div>mail only made things worse. If I did not know about KDE, I'd say that they are censoring</div><div>the discussion. Instead I'm just embarrassed.</div><div><br></div><div>Even the original motivation for putting the ML under moderation could've been worded better,</div><div>it raised complaints from some people I know.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Putting an email under manual moderation requires that manual moderation to happen much,</div><div>much faster than 10 hours. If help is needed in moderating, please say so.</div><div>If you want to shutdown the discussion about RMS, say it was getting too aggressive, not that</div><div>it's "offtopic".</div><div><br></div><div>Niccolò<br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno ven 26 mar 2021 alle ore 20:36 Valorie Zimmerman <<a href="mailto:valorie.zimmerman@gmail.com">valorie.zimmerman@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello my friends,<div><br></div><div>When I put this list on emergency moderation, I felt that this was necessary. It still seems so, but I want to lift moderation as soon as possible. </div><div><br></div><div>I may have played a part in continuing the negative thread that "wouldn't die" by expressing my own opinion. I should have followed my own advice and walked away after writing my email and then removed parts which expressed a personal opinion. </div><div><br>While I may disagree with others about the value of RMS to Free Software, he is not the issue. The more organizations I've been involved with, the more I realize the value of good governance. The FSF has been critical to the growth of Free Software, and the recent news about their Board is very worrying. <br><br>My statement did not do anything to convey that or to help, and for that I am truly sorry. </div><div><br></div><div>Posts about Richard Stallman are off-topic and will not be allowed. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to those of you who called my attention to my part in all of this. </div><div><br></div><div>All the best to each of you, to KDE and all of the Free software communities,</div><div><br></div><div>Valorie</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://about.me/valoriez" target="_blank">http://about.me/valoriez</a> - pronouns: she/her<br></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Niccolò Venerandi<br><div style="font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>