[OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

[Liz]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Ian Dees wrote:
> One of the tenets mentioned in the video SteveC linked to was to not fuel
> the fire by responding to poisonous posts on mailing lists. As we discuss
> what to do about this sort of distraction, we should keep in mind that the
> whole community bears the responsibility: Don't reply to off-topic
> or inflammatory posts.

'Poison' is opinion.
I regard these efforts as attempted censorship

"take this back to legal-talk where it belongs"
"don't reply to poisonous posts"

Discussion needs to be free and widespread.