From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Valeo de Vries Subject: Re: wiki "abuse" Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 18:59:30 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: git To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 09 20:00:02 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiWdh-0006OC-Ee for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:59:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752228Ab0HIR7u (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:59:50 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:62045 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750834Ab0HIR7t (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:59:49 -0400 Received: by wwj40 with SMTP id 40so11870481wwj.1 for ; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:59:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.157.17 with SMTP id z17mr13647043wbw.122.1281376787744; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:59:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com (mail-wy0-f174.google.com [74.125.82.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n17sm2750105weq.30.2010.08.09.10.59.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:59:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wyb39 with SMTP id 39so279869wyb.19 for ; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.156.12 with SMTP id u12mr13772859wbw.213.1281376770963; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:59:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.129.20 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 10:59:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 9 August 2010 17:24, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> I would have welcomed edits that add to the value of the Git wiki as an >> information source about Git. Not as an information source about you. > > Just to make things crystal clear. The _only_ edit was this link to your > blog. You contributed nothing else. Nada. Zilch. Would the same have happened if someone like Randy Dunlap or Linus himself had created an account, added a link to their blog or whatever to their user page *before* making contributions? I'm guessing not. This is quite common practice on the 'net. I personally think that, before one goes and advertises one's site on some else's (and let's face it, with zero contributions in your history, that's what it is - advertising), that you should contribute something of more value first, but that's just my personal opinion. However since this is clearly disliked on the Git wiki, user pages should either be disabled (which is quite easy to do) or there should be a *disclaimer* somewhere that this sort of behaviour will not be tolerated. Somewhere like, oh I don't know, (which is, quite helpfully, blank). Banning users without letting on what the rules are isn't very polite, or productive for that matter. Unless the goal is to drive folks away and stop them contributing... which is what wikis are there for (outside contributions), right? Valeo