OT: Handling Politics the plug-discuss way?

[Ryan Rix]

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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