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Re: time to get a new digest writer
by Troy Unrau on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @17:37

You know, I sort of agree with this mentality. We (internally) have talked before about poisonous people in the KDE community, but this could just as well extend to users. We don't need poisonous users, and they can go elsewhere while the rest enjoy the project.

I will have to think about this some more, and try to develop some sort of position statement... hrmmm...

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Re: time to get a new digest writer
by Martin on Saturday 23/Feb/2008, @22:04

How about a trojan in Konqueror that detects troll posting to the Dot and uninstalls KDE the next time the user gains superuser privileges? Oh, so a post suggesting to trojan KDE could itself be considered trolling? Alright, one moment. I'll just install this package and then come up with something better...... Hey!? what is happ

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Re: time to get a new digest writer
by Erik on Sunday 24/Feb/2008, @05:28

LOL ;-) (although he is probably not using Konqueror)

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Re: time to get a new digest writer
by cirehawk on Sunday 24/Feb/2008, @14:09

And to be honest, I wasn't saying it in a mean spirited way. I just hate when people try to make demands of someone who is providing them a free service. It would be as if I were giving someone $1,000 dollars out of the kindness of my heart, but they get upset that I don't give it them at the exact moment they want it. I'd rather they say thank you or nothing at all. FOSS is all about choice. If a person wants to move on to something else (no matter how silly the reason), then by all means do it.

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Re: time to get a new digest writer
by Boudewijn Rempt on Monday 25/Feb/2008, @03:30

At the 2007 LGM Bryce Harrington gave a presentation on this topic that was very insightful. His presentation is at http://www.bryceharrington.org/lgm07/, especially http://www.bryceharrington.org/lgm07/03_4_users_vs_contributors.svg. His recent blog entry http://bryceharrington.org/drupal/foss-win-paradox develops the same theme: users can have a negative effect on a project, and the trick is to make users stop considering themselves as entitled consumers and turn them into worthwhile contributors.

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