[OpenID] On the banning of Santosh

[David Recordon]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Dick Hardt <dick.hardt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2009-11-29, at 8:05 PM, DeWitt Clinton wrote:
>
> It's not fair to single out David for that action.
>
>
> I, for one, wholeheartedly supported it.  Asked for it, actually.
>
>
> I hope that David interprets my comments as constructive criticism. It has
> been a delight to see David develop as strong leader of the community over
> the years. I understood David is the one that wielded the axe.
>

Don't worry, even though I disagree with you I'm not misinterpreting your
comments.  And thanks.

I'm also boggled why people are arguing *against* asking people to leave
> when they cross the line and start attacking other people.
>
> Asking people to leave, and kicking them out are two very different
> actions.
>
> Banning someone is the simple solution.
>
> Turning Santosh into a constructive, respectful contributor is the ideal I
> would strive for. Would you not agree?
>

Yes and I feel like I and others have tried doing this multiple times over
the past six months.  I've directly sent him emails off of the list when I
first noticed this sort of behavior in addition to replying to multiple
inappropriate comments of his on the list as well.  The simple solution
would have been to have banned him months ago; that's not what we did.

I considered moderating all of his posts for approval instead of banning him
from this list for a month, but logistically it didn't seem plausible.  If
you're willing to review and moderate all of his posts I'm more than happy
to set you up to do that.  I just know that I couldn't commit to doing that
in a timely fashion.

--David


> -- Dick
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