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I think the point here is that a) he did everything right b) he did nothing wrong and c) it doesn't really matter what characters go into the name. I think the

I think the point here is that a) he did everything right b) he did nothing wrong and c) it doesn't really matter what characters go into the name. I think the complaint is quite petty, and it doesn't really solve any problems. Approximately nobody is going to have a worse opinion of Arch Linux because of the content of a url in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, and it's basically a waste of time to address this as an issue.

scrollaway 9y ago
> it's basically a waste of time to address this as an issue. It's just as much of a waste of time to defend it. Arch has hundreds of mirrors and dozens come and go every month. Dropping one takes less time than it took me to reply to you here.
- microcolonel 9y ago
  > It's just as much of a waste of time to defend it. If by "defend" you mean "not spend more money on registering yet another domain", then I'd say it's worth defending. A hundred dollars is worth at least a few emails, especially if it is at the expense of a productive community member, on behalf of some anonymous whiner.
  - viraptor 9y ago
    Domains don't cost hundreds of dollars if you really don't care about the name. You can find some for $5 a year for one which nobody needs to remember/type.
  - scrollaway 9y ago
    Nobody is forcing the person in question to host an arch mirror. Being included in the official mirror list does not come without rules and if one of these rules is "don't have a shitty domain name", I don't see the problem. PS, domain names on non-egregious TLDs are 5-10 bucks a year.
    - microcolonel 9y ago
      Pissing on people who spend their hard earned cash and precious mortal time on serving your community is a great way to ruin it. I hope nobody ever has to deal with your leadership. I don't see the value in punishing community members for the high crime of being autistic weeaboos.
      - scrollaway 9y ago
        I've created and managed many communities. Kicking people out for being rude isn't a thing that's ever in question and "giving back" to the community (no matter how) doesn't shield you from that. The person there got their mirror removed because the domain name is purposefully in bad taste. What else did you expect? Alucard, the person in question, is someone who spends his "hard earned cash" trying to push the boundaries of every community he's a part of, just so he can get kicked out and complain about "SJWs" (keybase @alucard, look him up). I personally don't give a fuck, but people whose work solely exists just to stir shit up are never healthy for a community and you shouldn't be surprised when they're removed. Maybe you think like that as well; maybe you, too, think all speech should be allowed in every community ever, with no boundary whatsoever. Maybe you think there's a speech-police armada out to get you, watching everything you write and analyzing it to send "anonymous complaints" when something's deemed too offensive. What actually happened: Someone saw a fucked up URL in the mirrorlist, probably looked it up to make sure it wasn't serving malware, then reported the incident on the forum. An arch dev saw that and basically said "nope, not dealing with that nonsense" and removed the mirror.
      - georgyo 9y ago
        This is clearly a person who has many many domains. Creating a public mirror requires very little time. I created the NYU arch mirror in under an hour. All you need is a server, bandwidth, and a cronjob. The guy claims he is making an ISP, if so he likely has servers and bandwidth to spare.

scrollaway 9y ago

> it's basically a waste of time to address this as an issue. It's just as much of a waste of time to defend it. Arch has hundreds of mirrors and dozens come and go every month. Dropping one takes less time than it took me to reply to you here.

microcolonel 9y ago
> It's just as much of a waste of time to defend it. If by "defend" you mean "not spend more money on registering yet another domain", then I'd say it's worth defending. A hundred dollars is worth at least a few emails, especially if it is at the expense of a productive community member, on behalf of some anonymous whiner.
- viraptor 9y ago
  Domains don't cost hundreds of dollars if you really don't care about the name. You can find some for $5 a year for one which nobody needs to remember/type.
- scrollaway 9y ago
  Nobody is forcing the person in question to host an arch mirror. Being included in the official mirror list does not come without rules and if one of these rules is "don't have a shitty domain name", I don't see the problem. PS, domain names on non-egregious TLDs are 5-10 bucks a year.
  - microcolonel 9y ago
    Pissing on people who spend their hard earned cash and precious mortal time on serving your community is a great way to ruin it. I hope nobody ever has to deal with your leadership. I don't see the value in punishing community members for the high crime of being autistic weeaboos.
    - scrollaway 9y ago
      I've created and managed many communities. Kicking people out for being rude isn't a thing that's ever in question and "giving back" to the community (no matter how) doesn't shield you from that. The person there got their mirror removed because the domain name is purposefully in bad taste. What else did you expect? Alucard, the person in question, is someone who spends his "hard earned cash" trying to push the boundaries of every community he's a part of, just so he can get kicked out and complain about "SJWs" (keybase @alucard, look him up). I personally don't give a fuck, but people whose work solely exists just to stir shit up are never healthy for a community and you shouldn't be surprised when they're removed. Maybe you think like that as well; maybe you, too, think all speech should be allowed in every community ever, with no boundary whatsoever. Maybe you think there's a speech-police armada out to get you, watching everything you write and analyzing it to send "anonymous complaints" when something's deemed too offensive. What actually happened: Someone saw a fucked up URL in the mirrorlist, probably looked it up to make sure it wasn't serving malware, then reported the incident on the forum. An arch dev saw that and basically said "nope, not dealing with that nonsense" and removed the mirror.
    - georgyo 9y ago
      This is clearly a person who has many many domains. Creating a public mirror requires very little time. I created the NYU arch mirror in under an hour. All you need is a server, bandwidth, and a cronjob. The guy claims he is making an ISP, if so he likely has servers and bandwidth to spare.