Draft message to Community ML - comments, please

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:
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> Some time ago a user started a page on http://community.kde.org on
> which he detailed things that he considered to be wrong with KDE
> software.  The comments were largely subjective, and in many cases
> demonstrated things that were not the general experience.  At that
> point he was asked to substantiate his complaints by pointing to bug
> reports.
>
> That strategy backfired, as he then began creating a barrage of bug
> reports, creating a good deal of work for triagers who have to decide
> whether the report is a duplicate of some other, or invalid for any
> reason.  Up to now people have been very patient with him, but it has
> come to our notice that he has crossed a line.
>
> He has now begun defacing other pages, adding links to his comments
> page and/or his bug reports.  This basically results in what should be
> "official" information, posted by developers of the application in
> question, being questionable, in that the reader cannot easily
> differentiate his input.
>
> In view of this we have reached the point where we believe that he
> should be banned from posting on the wikis, and his comments
> completely removed.

The users conduct in this case basically constitutes a violation of
the code of conduct, so this has my full support.

>
> Anne Wilson
> annew at kde.org
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Thanks,
Ben