Re: wiki "abuse"

[Valeo de Vries <valeo@valeo.co.cc>]

On 9 August 2010 19:08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Valeo de Vries wrote:
>
>> Banning users without letting on what the rules are isn't very polite,
>> or productive for that matter.
>
> When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Going about in Rome, spitting
> everywhere, is rude, even if it is considered polite in your home country.

Not that dissimilar to "my neighbour beats his wife, so I do too"...

That little nitpick aside, you've completely avoided

> https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&limit=500
>
> ... and yes, you will find that e.g. Matthieu Moy has a user page there,
> which should answer your other question.

Ok, so some users are allowed links on their user page and some are
not. The point I was trying to drive home, which I think you may have
possibly missed, is that nowhere on the Git wiki does it say that user
pages cannot be used in such a way. Nor is there any mention that
using *enabled* features such as reaching an admin via their talk page
will get them banned for life.

> As for the other two user pages: I was not sure about them, so I left
> them, even if I don't believe that they should live at the primary source
> for information about Git.

Then why aren't these features disabled, if using them will result in
an infinite ban (which is a little bit too strong, no?) from the Git
wiki?

Valeo