One of the “Liberia” Chat staff unbanned me from the network on the conditions that I only maintain one screen name and that I stay out of Fedora’s channels.
It turns out that Khaytsus/Walter Francis reported me for doxing him after he put his picture and real name on fedoraproject dot org.
"The CoC complaint I filed with the Fedora Project continues."I know that they’re reading my blog.
Anyway, I think he reported me to the staff to get me k-lined (banned from the network) both as a petty revenge and as a cover-up for calling him an asshole after he said, falsely, that I was “on meth” and “needed serious help."
The CoC complaint I filed with the Fedora Project continues. I got another email today thanking me for the screenshots and assuring me that they are investigating the incident.
According to the Libera staff member “moonmoon”, they spent all week chasing down my accounts (and I might add banning people who were not even me) because I have a VPN and was just rejoining until they found me again.
They said if I would just take a time out for a week then I would be welcome to come back to Libera.
I asked “moonmoon” why I was the only one being punished when Walter was the one that had initiated the hostilities.
It turned out that the staff (1) had no idea that this incident had occurred and (2) had banned me for the alleged “doxing”.
"They said if I would just take a time out for a week then I would be welcome to come back to Libera."
We eventually agreed that since he posted his own details online and I was simply addressing a public figure by name in the room, it was not a doxing, and the ban was lifted.
Now Walter still faces the CoC complaint due to the hostilities in the Fedora rooms.
I agreed to not go back into the fedora rooms. I have no reason to anyway. I was so furious over the weekend about the entire debacle and what’s been going on at Red Hat that I learned openSUSE Leap with KDE in about a day and now my computers run that.
It is disturbing how centralized Free Software discussions have gotten and how itchy some people are to shoot you first and ask questions only a week later after they’ve done so much unnecessary work trying to deal with you, without even giving you a chance to explain yourself before being hit with a k-line.
"Now Walter still faces the CoC complaint due to the hostilities in the Fedora rooms."Anyone can run an IRC server. Techrights has its own. Previously we were just on Freenode and then after the Freenode debacle, Libera. But now there’s a dedicated server.
And when you run your own network you decide who is on it. There are people on Libera who like me that couldn’t talk to me for almost a week with any reliability because they jumped straight to a k-line based on a single person lying about me to cover up his own misdeeds, which I find to be very unfortunate.
Nobody should have to be banned from an entire network and other people’s rooms over something that happened only in one room and has been dealt with there unless it was an attack on the network or some sort of serious and illegal content that they just can’t allow. Which this wasn’t.
"Nobody should have to be banned from an entire network and other people’s rooms over something that happened only in one room and has been dealt with there..."
It’s a shame that Walter has only proven my point about Fedora turning into a Kakistokracy, a place governed by only the worst, largely because IBM drove only but the worst away.
I think Walter is the only moderator left that’s even very active, at least to the best of my knowledge and given the times of day I was on IRC.
There used to be at least 5-6 people online with moderator hats that would have contained this and now it’s just one guy openly trolling people and flaming them and then booting them out. ⬆