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Spam and Online shaming

Asked by Charles Peters II

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ifupdown/+bug/1375821/comments/13

This comment says nothing other than pointing to the person's twitter account and in my opinion it is spam. It appears to be a form of online shaming and not an appropriate way of helping resolve a hard to reproduce bug.

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William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#1

It's not pleasant, but it's also not totally abusive. It's not doing much harm.

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Charles Peters II (cp) said : 		#2

I didn't describe it as abusive, it's spam. Is spam allowed on Launchpad?

If spam is allowed, I'll probably start unsubscribing from package bug reports.

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William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#3

In what way is it spam? It's related to the conversation.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#4

Perhaps Twitter's interface is confusing you in some way? It's not just a link to a random person's Twitter account; it's a link to a particular tweet (apparently from the same person who wrote the bug comment linking to it) complaining about Canonical's slow response to this same bug.

I think it would be a very bad look for Canonical to ban somebody from our bug tracking system because of them complaining on another forum about Canonical's slow response to a bug and linking to it from Launchpad. We would do it if it were spam or clearly abusive, but as far as I can see this is neither.

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