Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH-TOPIC] Review - Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it.

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 2:35 PM Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> wrote:
> [2] One thing that perhaps could be done would be to add some CoC-aware
>     anti-spam-kind-of-filtering heuristics at VGER (no idea if VGER infra
>     would actually support it without introducing high delays). If a
>     message contain some wording that could fit into an offensive pattern,
>     it could discard the message, replying to the sender an automatic
>     message - with some fallback mechanism like notifying someone, in order
>     to cover false-positive cases. It may even have some temporary auto-ban
>     feature, if the abusive behavior happens more than <x> times during
>     a certain period of time. For sure that won't cover all cases, but
>     it could be effective on obvious abusive cases.

At least it would have the benefit of maintainers no longer having to deal
manually with people sending patches to remove offensive words from the
source code comments ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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