Draft message to Community ML - comments, please

Jos Poortvliet jospoortvliet at gmail.com
Mon Aug 5 16:28:44 UTC 2013


On Monday 05 August 2013 15:13:32 Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
> 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.

I am assuming people talked to him. If so, I suggest to mail the cwg team 
about it and block him as proposed by Ann. The CWG can handle it further (tell 
him about the why etc etc).

Cheers,
J

> 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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