Re: [Gimp-user] The system of levels, badges and presents of Discourse

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 23/10/2022 08:59, Ralf Mardorf via gimp-user-list wrote:
> By closing individual mailman mailing lists and replacing it with a
> single forum, everything is under control of a single authority.There
> even isn't the need to moderate or ban users with unwanted opinions,
> since the users are educated by levels, badges and presents. IOW all
> users are under general suspicion to express unwanted opinions, hence
> everybody is moderated by a credit system. This Chinese alike approach
> has nothing to do with the "libre" in FLOSS.

Please curb your paranoia. The Gimp mailing list is already a central
authority (you can be banned...) and uses a server from another
authority, from which it could hypothetically be kicked.

> There are valid reasons to moderate or ban a user, but usually such a
> user is barred by an individual part of a project, not by the whole
> universe and before it happens a user must have expressed something that
> is unwanted.

People gets banned because of their obnoxious behavior, not because of
their opinion on such and such project. In which case it is likely that
their behavior is pervasive.

> A credit system to stop individual opinions in the first place stops all
> individual opinions completely. At the worst a "misbehaving" user gets
> not only banned from one or the other part of the project, but from the
> whole universe of the superior project.
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