How to treat trolls

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:32:43AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:01:25 -0500
> Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 15:30 +0100, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
> > > I'm considering to ban him, but I don't want to do anything that
> > > would harm our reputation of open and censorship-free community.
> 
> ...snip...
> 
> Posting over and over "windows 8 power" is not a dialog or providing
> any actual involvement, it's just spam. I'd say the same thing if some
> Fedora user was posting "Fedora power" on all microsoft posts. 
> 
> > 
> > You should just silently ban him.
> 
> +1. 
> 
> They are not providing anything meaningfull to the discussion. If it
> was even "I prefer windows 8 over fedora because..." that would be
> great, but it's not. It's just mindless spam, IMHO. 

+1 here too for the same reasons.

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