[Arm-netbook] phoronix forum user violating terms of use, help needed keeping an eye on him

[Paul Boddie]

On Sunday 3. July 2016 07.53.04 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Hrvoje Lasic <lasich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Luke,
> > 
> > It is all this but i dont believe that reporting him is a good way to
> > handle difficult people.
> 
>  when they're breaking the terms of service of the site, and they're
> bringing the forum into disrepute as a result.... yeah.
> 
> >  Ask for advise, do trial&error, dont treat this guy as an enemy but
> >  rather
> > 
> > opportunity to improve your overall communication and product or if you
> > really think it is not owrthy, ignore him.
> 
>  on it.

Yes, it's not worth spending time on these people. Everyone can see that 
you've been constructive and actually doing stuff whereas those people are 
just pundits, impatiently stamping their feet for people to bring them the 
latest and shiniest, having no idea of the cost of anything, and insulting 
people trying to educate them.

I also find it remarkable that so many people care about GPL violations all of 
a sudden. They probably all have smartphones whose vendors ship licence-
violating blobs, not to mention the surveillance-enabled firmware all those 
things are presumably running, but because they felt that they got a great 
deal with their quad-core, multi-gigahertz, big-screen monster they're 
probably proud to give those smartphone and chipset vendors their repeated 
custom.

It's also worth noting that people like the Software Freedom Conservancy, who 
are regularly criticised by cowardly anti-copyleft trolls for supposedly 
making businesses afraid of copyleft, actually believe in constructively 
resolving licence violations through as many avenues as possible before even 
considering litigation. All those suddenly-vocal people sure have strong 
opinions about something they will nevertheless do absolutely nothing about 
themselves.

Myself, I thought it positive that you convinced at least one person to re-
evaluate their position and to take a proper look at the campaign. By staying 
positive, all the vocal naysayers are easily seen to be the trolls they really 
are. And their forum thread outbursts are easily forgotten as more articles 
and news appears, of course.

Paul