Inappropriate tone on this mailing list and requirement for governance

[Loïc Martin]

Oliver Grawert wrote:
>> and you and I both know I have pissed off so many  net 
>> nazis here, Osama Bin Laden has a better chance of being on "the team" 
>> then I :)
> thats exactly my point, someone like you will care that the team doesnt
> turn into a power abusing dictatorship but will slap the fingers of the
> other team members if they go to far ...
> 
> ciao
> 	oli

Are you sure the team would be best served having moderators that set 
things as confrontational and forget the CoC principles when it comes to 
asserting their personal opinion? Having to reach reasonable decisions 
is hard to manage when working with someone that values his/her opinion 
more than principles agreed upon by the community - or just elementary 
decency*.

I've seen replies that contained only a polite request for a message to 
be resend as text ("Please don't send your messages as HTML") flamed and 
labeled as net police or net nazis... The request might have been a bit 
short, and I'd rather we explained things in a nicer way to first time 
users, but interpreting this simple request (a request that Ubuntu 
mailing list etiquette also makes) as an aggression or an infringement 
on our human rights... is that really constructive?

Instead of forming the moderator team as a loose group of uncontrollable 
users each kept under leash by the adverse party, wouldn't it be better 
to just get people that value the Ubuntu community and showed they're 
more interested in helping others than proving their point?

Loïc

* Trying to assimilate nazis to people offensive on a mailing list is a 
rather debatable agenda.