Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:107267 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60706 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2019 16:25:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO php-smtp3.php.net) (208.43.231.12) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 20 Sep 2019 16:25:50 -0000 Received: from php-smtp3.php.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by php-smtp3.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 072152D1FC0 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:03:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on php-smtp3.php.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, SPF_HELO_NONE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-ASN: AS29169 217.70.176.0/20 X-Spam-Virus: No Received: from relay11.mail.gandi.net (relay11.mail.gandi.net [217.70.178.231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by php-smtp3.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:03:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from samurai.attlocal.net (107-223-28-39.lightspeed.nsvltn.sbcglobal.net [107.223.28.39]) (Authenticated sender: pmjones@pmjones.io) by relay11.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E3C73100012; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:03:39 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.5 \(3445.9.1\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:03:37 -0500 Cc: PHP internals , Dan Ackroyd Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <66B2B258-DE4A-4E83-A792-D2E4760B119F@pmjones.io> References: To: Brent X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.9.1) X-Envelope-From: Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Prevent disruptions of conversations From: pmjones@pmjones.io ("Paul M. Jones") > On Sep 20, 2019, at 01:25, Brent wrote: >=20 > Moderators are no dictators Maybe, maybe not. But moderators can and do play favorites, banning or silencing one voice = (of whom they disapprove) for the same things that they ignore from = another voice (of whom they do approve). Moderators, with the power to ban and to silence, become the owners of = the project whose communications they moderate. By controlling the flow = of information in a project, moderators control the status of the = members in that project, and thereby control the direction of the = project. --=20 Paul M. Jones pmjones@pmjones.io http://paul-m-jones.com Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP https://leanpub.com/mlaphp Solving the N+1 Problem in PHP https://leanpub.com/sn1php