unacceptable behavior in the forums--we may need a forum moderator

[Wierd Wierd]

I was cruising the forums a little bit ago, and came
across some rather unpleasant postings by some of our
users.  It would be in our best interests to clean
them up promptly, as their disrespect to people with
honest questions reflects poorly on our developers,
and the project as a whole.

There may be more, but I found the derogatory postings
in the 'Please...' thread, and the "Blue screen of
death" thread.

I hope this is an isolated incident, but if it keeps
up, we may have to have a dedicated forum moderator to
keep things civil in there.  Some people just dont
know how to be nice to each other.

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[Mark IJbema]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:41:23PM -0800, Wierd Wierd wrote:
> I was cruising the forums a little bit ago, and came
> across some rather unpleasant postings by some of our
> users.  It would be in our best interests to clean
> them up promptly, as their disrespect to people with
> honest questions reflects poorly on our developers,
> and the project as a whole.
>
> There may be more, but I found the derogatory postings
> in the 'Please...' thread, and the "Blue screen of
> death" thread.
>
> I hope this is an isolated incident, but if it keeps
> up, we may have to have a dedicated forum moderator to
> keep things civil in there.  Some people just dont
> know how to be nice to each other.

Then you'll get endless debates over where moderators should draw the
line. Personally i don't like censorship, and i think only exceptionally
disrupting postings (like the one concerning Betov, and the one which
links to the source code) should be removed. It might however be better
if we'd require a login...

Mark