[Foundation-l] Vandal obscene redirect from Toolserver

[Jason donovan]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 15:53, Aryeh Gregor
> <Simetrical+wikilist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You're mistaken.  The toolserver has strict rules:
> >
> > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Rules
> >
> > Using toolserver access in a manner that does not further the
> > toolserver's goals (or, indeed, hinders them) is a misappropriation of
> > donated resources and will be dealt with harshly.  More than a few
> > users' accounts have been shut down for abuse.  Even if something is
> > not specifically against the rules, toolserver roots reserve the right
> > to prohibit or penalize it ex post facto at their discretion.  As the
> > rules say: "The toolserver is not a wiki and excuses such as 'the
> > rules didn't say I can't do this' will be ignored."
> >
> > Since this isn't urgent, I'll leave it for more active admins to deal
> > with.  However, I would not be at all surprised if the user was asked
> > to take down the redirect, at the very least.
>
> As admin (but not Toolserver admin), the sense of rules similar to "
> excuses such as 'the rules didn't say I can't do this' will be
> ignored." is obvious to me and it means "don't make troubles". Having
> a redirect to a Wikipedia page is not "making troubles".
>
> This issue could be discussed more and I am not saying that the best
> way for making directory listing forbidden is to make such redirect.
> However, raising this issue at foundation-l is more about making
> troubles than having such redirect.
>
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I'm sorry but I don't see the wisdom in antagonizing someone for bringing a
legitimate concern to this list. It might not be the right place and he did
copy the message to toolserver-l but telling him "to stop using
toolserver...if you have problem with profanity on user's main personal
page." does not seem right.

It almost seems like you're defending this person on toolserver or the idea
of having profanity on a user's "main personal page".

Jason