Not only that, people ask very pointed and potentially embarrassing questions at company meetings. Everything is in the open at Mozilla.
After spending more than a decade and a half in corporate America, it's very, very refreshing.
As a long-time lurker but new user, I see little reason to ever even attempt to participate on a forum with moderation rules like this.
This may be speculation but I'm guessing many others would make the same cost/benefit analysis.
You've also been here for almost 4 years. So that would be nearly a year of being treated like a second class citizen. I agree with the parent that this would stifle participation by newer users.
tptacek is exactly right. Not to put words in his mouth, but "nothing more than" is your characterization of what he said as opposed to what he actually said.
The history tptacek is describing goes back to the 1980s: use your favorite search engine to look for the name "Richard Sanzda" for a poignant example.
Do you understand why it's not valid to pick a single anecdote that aligns with your narrative and use it to draw conclusions about a large group of individuals?
I'm not mischaracterizing tptacek's comment. Nor am I suggesting that there were no bad actors.
tptacek said: "The "hackers" FD's moderator is talking about are the ones I'm talking about.", those being "teenagers breaking into phone switches and harassing people, buying Pantera CDs on stolen credit cards, stealing ESNs from other people's phones to make calls on someone else's bill, and rm'ing Unix boxes".
Obviously, this is not who the FD moderator was talking about, making tptacek's comment unfair.
