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

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.

 appreciated paul.