Policy on extra-namespace trolling

[Lorenzo J. Lucchini]

I believe a relatively important point is missing from our policy.

It sometimes happens that someone points out in one of our channels that "a 
good flamewar is in progress in #test", or "let's all go troll #test".

Of course that can't be acceptable, and perhaps even less appropriate is 
following suits to such suggestions. However, we don't have an explicit 
policy about this.

Freenode itself discourages such activities, and may take actions upon 
channels that are used as "troll-pits" to some extent. I believe this should 
be reflected in our guidelines.

I propose the following wording:

"DO NOT HARASS OR INCITE HARASSMENT - Do not organize or encourage harassment 
of other groups or people, or take part in such activities following 
incitement coming from our channels, or after someone happens to point out 
that a given group or person is vulnerable to harassment."


by LjL
ljl at ubuntu.com
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