[Ambassadors] Red Hat's investments (was Re: Going passive)

[Bill Nottingham]

Bruno Wolff III (bruno at wolff.to) said: 
> > 1. No swearing.  No exceptions.  (I look forward to the first time I get
> > kickbanned from the list for violating this one.)
> 
> I don't like that, but can live with it. But please clarify if that includes
> things like '%$&!' where people don't type a particular swear word, but
> indicate they are swearing and perhaps also cases where a particular
> swear is indicated, but not spelled out (e.g. f'ing).

Meh. I'm not sure what a zero-tolerance policy on swearing buys us - it's
orthogonal to actually behaving in a civil manner, IMO.

> > 4. The CWG needs a standard policy for violations.  Maybe something like
> > this:
> 
> We could use shunning. When people say things you (the general you, not you
> in particular) don't like, rather than start longs threads of name calling,
> you just stop responding to them.

If this worked, there wouldn't be internet trolls. Alas, 20 years of the
internet seems to put a damper on this idea working.

Bill