Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: [CoreTeam]Re: [support #102654] Abuse of the BUG tracking system

[Norbert Bollow]

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Jaime E. Villate <address@hidden> wrote:

> Trollers are usually looking for an opportunity to make a public
> complaint on how they have been mistreated and to portrait themselves
> as innocent victims; if you ban them, they will attain their
> objective.

As long as mdupont is in strong vocal disagreement with essential
parts of what DotGNU needs to do in order to fulfil the project's
mission, short of essentially killing the project there is no way that
we can stop mdupont from making public complaints.

The question was just whether or not we allow him to abuse the
project's communication infrastructure for making his complaints.  It
was his endless complaining about how he supposedly was being
mistreated (plus a blackmail attempt) which eventually got him banned.


Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> wrote:

> Estimating a work on its author historical account but not on the
> work itself is considered as an immoral attitude by many persons.

In rejecting this patch, Rhys did not make any statement about the 
work.  There is not much point now in discussing whether the choice
of words was "brutal" or not; IMO the main thing is that what Rhys
wrote was honest and truthful.

In an abusive relationship, where one person is continually harassing
the other, there is nothing immoral about the victim of the abuse
eventually terminating the relationship.  That is what Rhys did, after
having been victim of mdupont's continued slander for a LONG time.

> With this kind of rules, you would following a morally acceptable
> policy: estimating the work on what it is actually, not focusing on
> the man behind.

This idea of _only_ "estimating the work on what it is actually",
without taking in consideration who is behind it, does not work
well when dealing with someone whose main goal is to harass you.

Greetings, Norbert.

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