On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:08 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> wrote:
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:26:15 +0100, <lukasz@langa.pl> wrote:
What can we do? Apart from the obligatory joke of nudging him gently towards Ruby, I think calling his behavior out is a good idea. Cory Doctorow also thinks that "many trolls are perfectly nice in real life -- sometimes, just calling them on the phone and confronting them with the human being at the other end of their attacks is enough to sober them up" [3]. If that fails, banning him would show that we care about the quality of communication and technical prowess is no excuse for abusive behavior.
As Brett pointed out, calling him on his behavior seems to meet with pretty much zero success as far as modifying his future behavior goes.
Aside from calling him out on his behavior and trying to change it, has anyone additionally made it clear to him that "if you continue this behavior, you will be banned from [insert as appropriate]"? Or is an explicit warning not needed?
--Chris