[Osmf-talk] OSMF membership applications rejected

[Oliver Kühn]

Frederik,

your position is still unclear to me since you are still using the forum. Are you accepting trolls and tolerating these Nazi-statements from a troll? Was your initial mail a proposal how to deal with these statements (shrug away)?

Regards,
Oliver



Am 25.08.2012 um 16:19 schrieb Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:

> Hi,
> 
> On 25.08.2012 15:40, Oliver Kühn wrote:
>> honesty I think it is a very big mistake to accept trolls and cracy
>> people (at least at the limit to legality in their statements) in the
>> (local) community as this is holding new (or less involved) people
>> back from  becoming (more) active. Your mail reads a bit like an
>> excuse or protection for Edwin. I think there should be zero
>> tolerance for Nazi-like statements rather than "shrugging away".
> 
> There was a thread about banning Edwin from the Forum about a year ago,
> here:
> 
> http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=13151
> 
> I didn't intend to defend Edwin's behaviour. However I don't consider
> myself "at home" in the German forum; I do occasionally read or post an
> article but I'm not part of the social fabric there. The forum does have 
> moderators and those moderators can ban people; the forum is a healthy 
> and lively community who, I should think, can handle their own affairs. 
> If they feel that their way of dealing with Edwin is best then I am not 
> in a position to tell them otherwise.
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 
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