[Foundation-l] Status of cloak requests

[effe iets anders]

2008/3/5, James Forrester <jdforrester op gmail.com>:
>
> On 26/02/2008, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester op gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 26, 2008, at 10:21 AM, John Reaves wrote:
> > > What freenode restrictions are enabling bot attacks?
> >
>
> > "Catalyzing". Ops not being allowed to stay opped all of the time.
> > Bans being removed after short periods of time.
>
>
> I find it remarkably sad that you chose to pick as "problems" three
> rules and guidelines that illustrate just how well the underlying
> philosophies of Freenode and Wikimedia mesh. You may wish to
> re-familirise yourself with our mission in Wikimedia.
>
> Yours,
>
> --
> James D. Forrester
> jdforrester op wikimedia.org | jdforrester op gmail.com
> [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
>
> Ehm, mission? What has the duration of a ban or op status to do with
spreading of knowledge? It's more about culture here :) The way we want to
behave, the values we share. But of course you are right that these things
are actually not strong enough in Freenode according to quite some
wikipedians...  So funny that these are mentioned as bad :P