[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hackage accounts and real names

Ivan Miljenovic wrote:

On 6 April 2010 14:28, Ertugrul Soeylemez wrote:

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Luke Palmer wrote:

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When you say convincing, you are talking about yourself being convinced, right?  So this paragraph means "The arguments against my position haven't convinced me, but the arguments for my position have."

Yes, of course, although I think that I can speak for some others as well.

So, let me summarise:

1) Hackage currently has a policy (not really a restriction if no Real World checks are done) that real names should be used.

2) Some people don't like this policy.

3) The people that don't like this policy have reasons why, which fails to convince people who have no problems with the policy.

4) The people who support the policy don't see why anyone has a problem with it.

5) No-one is convincing anyone else to their point of view, so we have a stale mate.

Well, there is probably a somewhat large portion of people, who simply don't care. And most people, who do care, wouldn't be hurt by changing the policy (other than their feelings, because they couldn't enforce their ideals). However, people are actually hurt by not changing it, as others and I pointed out. The policies of a worldwide community platform can be based on certain ideals, but they shouldn't enforce them, because those don't work everywhere. They should be as friendly as possible to every potential member. In my opinion the policy should be changed to: "We encourage using real names as user names, but if you have specific reasons not to do so, you can use a pseudonym." Greets, Ertugrul -- nightmare = unsafePerformIO (getWrongWife >>= sex) http://blog.ertes.de/