Dealing with flamebait

[paulmelis]

@mbauman

I really don’t want there to be public discussion/accusations of trolling/flame-baitery. I think members here should assume good intent; it’s upon us moderators to decide if something is being done in bad faith.

Having spent a fair amount of years on all kinds of public forums relating to open-source development (Blender, Python, VTK, etc), both lurking on threads and engaging in them, I really agree with this point. I’ve never seen a post like Stefan’s calling out one or more users (wether real or not) and calling them “sock puppets” in such strong terms. Not only was I shocked to read it, but I’d be very careful with posting such things as they are publicly visible and will be for a long time. Such posts really give a weird and negative impression of the forum, its community and leadership, whether deserved or not.