full-disclosure - Re: Voting for bans

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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:37:58 -0400
From: Kevin Wilcox <kevin@....appstate.edu>
To: "Jan G.B." <ro0ot.w00t@...glemail.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Voting for bans

On 23 March 2010 11:18, Jan G.B. <ro0ot.w00t@...glemail.com> wrote:

> We all know that the email address he used to use is banned.

Yep

> We also know that our inboxes are filled with crap since he returned some weeks ago.

Yep, with a large amount of that being from narcissists that just
*have* to get their jokes or jibes in and can't either ignore him or,
better yet, just hit delete.

> What can we do?

Kill-file.

> Not much. He showed us several times, that "talking" to him makes no sense.

Kill-file or ignore. It works, and it works for *anyone* you don't
want to deal with. It's great.

> He is struggling for reactions on his topics, and he will always get some
> reactions (Yes, even if I don't respond). The noise in the last days was
> terrible.

Yes it has been. Again, though, it's been mostly from folks that want
to get in their snide comments or make themselves look good with their
jabs and pokes; the signal level would again go up if they'd let it
rest and just hit delete.

> We have the freedom to ban him from your inboxes. Let's do it!

Like I said, kill-file. It really does work.

Seriously, Jan, I do understand where you're coming from but banning
account after account does no good in a world of unlimited email
accounts. What *does* work is to let someone post at will and simply
ignoring what you don't want to reply to. The problem isn't that we
have one person that posts a ton of crud, it's that we have one person
that posts and fifty that insist on commenting about how it's crud -
and then continue to harp about how that single poster needs to go
away when he replies to each of them.

kmw

-- 
A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting.
Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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