Discipline in Open Source Projects?

An anonymous reader asks: "I've recently been elected (with another project member) to lead an open source project that we helped start several years ago. One of our goals as project leads is to implement some way to discipline project members who are disruptive to the project. In the past, the project has been slowed by flames, trolls, and even filibustering. Everyone says they want to work together, but some refuse to accept majority opinion. This passive-aggressiveness, coupled with growing despair on the part of other members, would have caused the project to dissolve if a vote had not taken place to elect new leadership (which the project has been lacking for some time). As co-leads we want the project to continue and grow, and we welcome all opinions, but how can disruptive members be told 'enough is enough'? We've read Ubuntu's Code of Conduct, but how can it or something similar be enforced?"

Comments

Discipline

[Dan East]

Spanking is definitely the way to go.

Dan East

Re:Discipline

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

My group uses ball-cutters and this works in 99 out of a 100 cases. That one case happend to be a woman. Which was a kind of painfull moment. You see, we came busting in through the door, yelling "you bastard did dare to use the wrong kind of indentation style, we're going to cut off your balls and see what style you're going to like then!" when we happen to notice that 1337chk did happen to be a real woman. The following silence was kind of unpleasant and we like to forget about that.

Why post as AC, Ian?

[Anonymous Coward]

We all know it's you... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian