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

[Gavin King]

OK, so basically he lied to Pete.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Christian Bauer
<christian.bauer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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