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DATE | 2020-02-16 |
FROM | Daniel Pocock
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SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] duplicated messages and NYLXS cross-posting
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On 16/02/2020 15:02, John Darrington wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 01:44:57PM +0000, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> >> >> On 16/02/2020 12:59, Ruben Safir wrote: >>> It is pretty simple. Stop trying to remove the emotional content >>> of my emails in face of this broad injustice to RMS and GNU >> >> This is a legitimate and important point > > I'm not sure to which point you are refering. > > Highlighting injustice is certainly a legitimate use of GNU > infrastructure - especially when it is being perpetrated in > such a sustained and systematic way. > > On the other hand, using this list to vent emotion (even when > severly provoked) is not, in my opinion, an acceptable use.
Let me clarify then:
Except for some extreme cases, emails featuring emotive language don't deserve to be censored
People who use metaphors as a way to help readers understand something are not doing anything wrong either. John Sullivan censored me from libreplanet when I used the lynching metaphor. If anybody wants to discuss that particular metaphor, please don't reply here, take it up on the libreplanet-discuss list.
An example with emotion and metaphor that would be censored under some Codes of Conduct: After the corruption of voting in FSFE and the Debian Project Leader election in 2019, I felt really cheated, like those Aussie swimmers who missed out on medals at the Olympics because the Chinese were doping.
Regards,
Daniel
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