Policy on extra-namespace trolling

[Jussi Kekkonen]

On 28 April 2011 18:34, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> I think the wording there is sufficient, so does it need to be duplicated?
>
> This makes me think of sending patches to the upstream developers. :)
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Lorenzo J. Lucchini <ljlbox at tiscali.it>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday 28 April 2011 16:39:51 Carl Karsten wrote:
>> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Lorenzo J. Lucchini
>> <ljlbox at tiscali.it>wrote:
>> > > Freenode itself discourages such activities
>> >
>> > URL?
>> >
>> > I believe you;  I would like to see how they worded it and what they do
>> > about violations.
>>
>> I'd say the relevant policy sections are
>>
>> http://freenode.net/policy.shtml#offtopic ("In accordance with UK law
>> freenode
>> and the PDPC have no tolerance for any activity which could be construed
>> as
>> [...] or any other behaviour meant to deliberately bring upon a person
>> harassment, alarm or distress")
>>
>> http://freenode.net/policy.shtml#topicalchannels ("These channels should
>> not
>> be used as platforms for flaming and trolling")
>>
>> The latter specifically refers to "##" channels; however it seems obvious
>> that
>> if such behaviors are not acceptable on them, they're even less so on
>> primary "#" channels.
>>
>> I should probably point out that these policies have previously been
>> enforced,
>> perhaps in an even stricter way than the letter suggests.
>>
>> by LjL
>> ljl at ubuntu.com
>>
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If we are going to dublicate Freenode rules (and that's not a bad idea
at all in this case), we might like to stress the fact that it's not
only our policy, but also the whole Freenode.

So yes, +1 with a amendment about the Freenode rules.

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Jussi Kekkonen, Tm_T
  Ubuntu/KDE developer  tmt at ubuntu.com