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From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 20:06:21 +0100
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Subject: Re: removing toxic emailers
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On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 at 16:32, David Malcolm wrote:
>
> "Don't feed the trolls" might have worked once, but sometimes they
> start talking to each other, and it becomes difficult for a bystander
> to tell that everyone else is ignoring them, and it keeps threads like
> this one alive.
>
> I reject the idea that those of us who work on GCC have to put up with
> arbitrary emails from random crazies on the internet without even the
> simple recourse of being able to put individuals on moderation.  That
> might have worked 20 years ago when I thought ESR was relevant, but
> seems absurdly out-of-date to me today.

Hear hear. "Just ignore them" allows the trolls to dominate the
discussion, and makes it appear that the entire GCC project is full of
such people (when in fact the ones dominating the discussions have
nothing to do with the project).

Moderation is not censorship.