[seam-dev] Fwd: [seam-forums] Unprofessional forum management

[Christian Bauer]

On Oct 27, 2008, at 18:22 , Gavin King wrote:

> Agreed, it seems like in this case the guy didn't mean to do  
> anything "bad".

Folks, of course he was told to use a real name. He not only ignored  
it but decided to set the name back to an acronym again. And his  
thread was NOT "alive". And no, besides locking them out without a  
message we currently don't have any other viable option in the  
software. A user ban feature has not been necessary so far! The real  
name notice actually works well 99% of the time - which shows that  
most people appreciate the rules of a community they just joined.  
Ignore the exceptions...

Also, he just posted the exact same content again and this time he  
actually used his real name. So nothing lost, no problem.

If you want the "programm0r" forum posters we can remove the real name  
policy completely. I have been really really surprised how well it  
worked though and the Seam forum content is mostly good quality -  
maybe because of that. It makes a difference if your future employers  
can Google your incompetence level ;)

We are evaluating a move to the upcoming new jboss.org forums, maybe  
we then have more options such as in-community messages, banning, etc.