Draft message to Community ML - comments, please

[Frederik Schwarzer]

Hi,

I would only ban him after telling him that what he does is considered
harmful. Maybe he is not aware of the consequences for others.

Regards


On 5 August 2013 13:04, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:

> 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
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