OT: Handling Politics the plug-discuss way?

[Joshua Zeidner]

 really?  we've just had some very interesting and articulate ideas
discussed that are relevant to Linux users.  This sort of thing
attracts intelligent people.  Honestly I get the impression that some
people are blowing it out of proportion because they have some stupid
petty agenda.

 -jmz

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Ryan Rix<phrkonaleash at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>
>> I mean god, a few extra
>> emails in your inbox and the world is coming to an end?  get over it.
>
> The problem is that for a new user, who is instantly presented with a fairly
> heated discussion on politics that may or may not contain
> FUD/untrue/misinformed thoughts could possible deter said user from
> participating in a NOT-OT discussion, or from participating in the list at
> all.
>
> It's not about 'getting over it' or anything, it's about making sure that
> the list is about, well, discussing GNU/Linux :) The politics, while
> interesting and engaging detract from this for users who may not be able to
> go through all of their plug-discuss mail all day, or may not want to take
> part in these discussions. Many of those users may be lurkers on the list
> for this very reason...
>
> I'm not saying that something -needs- to occur, only that a discussion
> regarding it -needs- to occur. I understand that these discussions may be
> productive in the getting-people-to-talk-and-articulate-their-thoughts
> department, but they pretty much fail in the talk-about-gnu/linux
> department...
>
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