Proposal for ML conduct
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon May 18 14:46:47 UTC 2009
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> How many times has the obnoxious person pointed out "Hey
>> asshole... use Google! "? Without such vitriol... many lists would
>> be drowning under the flood of people asking the same damn questions
>> over and over.
>
> There is nothing in the situation you describe that requires that
> level of useless vitriol. Rewrite the same advice in a helpful and
> friendly way, and it achieves the same effect without lowering the
> tone of the discussion.
>
And just to clear something up.
I answer the same question over and over again, often.
I do not think a moderator will be alarmed if, in response to the same
question over and over, a form-response is pasted in and/or a single link
is left as an answer to the question.
It's a far cry from being rude and abusive to someone to simply answering
the question quickly and dispassionately.
There are times when someone misinterprets efficiency/expediency as
rudeness but I don't think that's what we're talking about for moderation
at all.
-sv
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