removing toxic emailers

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 18, 2021, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:

> "Just ignore them" allows the trolls to dominate the discussion

*nod*

That's why it's best to dissent politely, lest they incorrectly conclude
their opinions are consensual, or majoritary, just because they've
driven dissenters into silence.


Violent emotional responses is what trolls of all alignments aim for.
Let's not give them that.  Let's not give them reasons to denounce
censorship either.  Let's dissent politely and kindly, without calling
them names, whether trolls or jerks or crazy.  Ad troll[i]um is a very
popular fallacious argument these days, but it's just as logically
unsound as other fallacies.

The best answer to unwanted speech is not censorship, but rather more
good speech.


It's true that negotiating and settling with wildly different opinions
requires more effort than having despotic powers to dictate the right
answer.  The community has made it clear what political model it
prefers, so let's put that in practice, shall we?

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