RFC: #ubuntu op misuse or not?

[Melissa Draper]

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Brian Burger <blurdesign at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Valorie Zimmerman <
> valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Rohan Dhruva <rohandhruva at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > * ops basing ban decisions based on personal prejudice (e.g. towards
>> > words like blitzkrieg and dictator, drawing conclusions of World War
>> > II and Hitler)
>>
>> Such language is not welcome in an *buntu space. In fact, it is not
>> welcome anywhere on the Internet, IMO.
>>
>
> Based on the IRC log excerpts posted elsewhere in this thread, our
> original poster basically called one of our chanops a Nazi and expected to
> get away with it.
>
> Really?
>
> No. Just, no.
>
> Brian
> (on IRC I'm "Madpilot". Not on much the last few years, but an Ubuntu
> chanop since 2006. I guess that makes me something like one of the Great
> Old Ones of Ubuntu's IRC setup?)
>
>
Back in the old days we also used to be a lot better about keeping what
happened in one channel out of other channels. Cross channel banning was
for exceptional circumstances and after consultation with fellow ops.
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