Re: Random bans and weird behavior by blakkheim on the IRC channel, lift please? Wondering what's up with this guy, expecting sufficient manners from IRC chat ops.

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 05:31:11PM -0000, tinkr@openmailbox.org wrote:
> Hi misc@,
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> The operator "blakkheim" just banned me on the project's IRC channel, out of a private passion or agenda rather than for any benefit of the channel.
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> I did something apparently-unapprioriate previously on the channel, which was to send a handful mass-highlights in October last year, and then two of them about three weeks ago.
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> I contacted blakkheim separately to discuss the matter recently and he dismissed to communicate. Two other ops said they would not lift blakkheim's ban, and I have not gotten any response from the channel founder Han.
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> Now that enough time passed, I made the effort to get into the channel and then clarify the issue by sending a clarification that I understand that blakkheim is easily irritated and that I will pay additional consideration to not highlight people as to not disturb blakkheim in particular, please see the clarification I sent, quoted at the bottom here in this email.
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> blakkheim was not pleased apparently and instead banned me again, maybe because of the fact that I mentioned his nickname at all. In all cases I find his ban abusive.
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> blakkheim's mandate to ban people from OpenBSD chat, is to protect the chat from influences that would be malign to the flow of the conversation or to the content of conversation.
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> Since I am not in that zone, I find his behavior presently to be abusive and disrespectful, and this is emphasized by the fact that I am a (non-code) project contributor.
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what is a non-code project contributor?