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What's on topic in Offtopic
Apparently the topic nazis have struck.
Any other ideas?
Calling adminstrators and moderators "topic nazis" , is a good valid reason to move a post to the "trash bin", ...
Also
The fact that some twits find this objectionable is abominable.
..Who specificly are you calling a "twit", ? Perhaps it would be better on that to send a PM,
Too bad Devuan does not have an active forum.
They do, have a very active mail list, and there is a forum, if those interested, used the forum, it would become active. But after all said and done that is not the topic of this thread, and all ready has been discussed countless times in the other thread.
Some common sense, and reading the forum guide lines, for most people is enough,
but some , simply like to start trouble, often we refer to them as "trolls", or other not so nice names. I have not read the original post, I have that one on my ignore list, but based on your response, and the topic title, I can see what the topic is about,
So....
Any other ideas?
I do have some ideas, I don't know how others feel, so I don't know if they are good or bad, but I am willing to share them.
One, idea is, if people would try to think a little about what they say when they post, and ask their selves " Is this related to the topic, in this thread ?
From:
"What's on topic in Offtopic?"
Dear forum members,
Please take note that the Debian User Forums' primary goal is for users to exchange information about Debian. We've got an Offtopic section, but please limit yourself to subjects that are at least remotely, vaguely related to Debian. That is:
Topics should at least touch on subjects related to computing or technology.
Thank you for your cooperation.
I suppose, that is kind of not real clear, for people that have no commonsense,
or additionally, it should say something about, like " Just because it is the offtopic forum, that does not mean it is ok to be making "off topic comments" that are not on topic ,with the topic of the thread.
To be more clear, Lets say user "joe" starts a topic , "my new distro", the new distro is
vaguely related to Debian, in that it uses the same kernel, ,....
Then user "trollA" chimes in with
I'm happy to see your new distro, progress, but either explain what "real freedom" means or be fair and retract the statement.
That is totally off topic, in relation to the thread that user "joe" started.
Now I think, another idea, is, if people, when they start a topic in "offtopic", and then some "troll" or idiot, chimes in with junk, not related to that thread, it needs to be reported, and a mod, can move it to the "jail" or "trashbin" , this would prevent a thread
from becoming so "polluted" with junk, that it is really just a "feed bin" for trolls.
Really, though, over all most of the "active members" here, are a pretty good bunch, and use some common sense, do follow the guidelines, help with questions, etc.
If some one is looking for a forum where they can express "political, religious, views", this is not the place, there are a few forums that are for that, off hand I don't know of any
because I am not interested in that kind of garbage.
This is hardly about systemd at all - it is discussing ideas on how we want the platform to proceed and be useful to those of us who consider themselves to be power users.
And how to get around certain 'features' we find to be encumbrances.
I am not 100% sure I understand what you mean here, but there would be no problem
with a topic, in the "offtopic" forum, discussing , " How we want the platform to proceed" (I am assuming, you mean Debian ? ),...
Where the problem starts, is when "trolls" and other idiots, start filling the thread with useless garbage, which eventually leads to the thread getting closed.
That is why it would be important, for anyone that starts a "off topic" thread, and those participating in the thread, interested in the topic, it is important to report any posts that
may start problems, from there it is up to a moderator.
One thing I noticed,if 1 report has been filed, then another user can not report the same post, so that makes it hard to see how many others feel the same, so I guess a PM would need to be sent.
But really, just following the guidelines, and some common sense, would help prevent a topic/thread from ever getting closed.