On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 6:31 PM, <tinkr@openmailbox.org> wrote:
> Hi misc@,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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> While I totally see that a certain harshness of character is great for other things, I do not see blakkheim to be justified in his present conduct as a chat op.
>
> I have not tracked what he has done on the IRC channel previously, does he have a history of throwing people around?
>
> I would like to be reassured that the ban has been lifted and that I not will be at risk of being aggressed by blakkheim quieting or banning when participating in a normal way on the chat, so that I would need to go through hoops to enjoy normal project chat participation, which should be a normal given.
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> Any clarification of lift of the ban by PM or otherwise will be much appreciated.
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> I am not accustomed to being pushed by an IRC chat operator to be so aggressive that I need to invoke a lot of people and make public clarifications. This altogether leads me to ask what's wrong with blakkheim.
>
> Thanks,
> Tinker
>
> --
>
> Message I sent on the channel:
>
> To finish a previous ban issue:
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> Soo, I have at least transitorily changed my nickname, to circumvent the ban for mass-highlighting three people in two messages, that blakkheim attributed to me about three weeks ago, and then did not want to revert.
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> I did a mass-highlight in October prior to that, and also annoyed blakkheim by being chattier than he likes, during 2016.
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> I'll likely not irritate blakkheim by being chatty in the future, and I understand that he and others are severely irritated by highlighting more than two people, so I will generally not do that.
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> I would have appreciated if blakkheim did not ban me and insist with keeping me banned, also with respect to the hardware and time donations I did to the project in 2016-2017, not super big but still making a difference, and also the contributions I am doing this year.
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> Anyhow, so sorry for the highlights. I intend to not highlight again.
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> Now please stop banning or quieting me, banning well-intended project contributors (albeit not in code) for non-offenses is not productive.
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> And so now I hope that problem is out of this world, thanks.
>
> </issue>.
So, you got banned from an IRC channel.
Okay. I suggest you move on.
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:wq!
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