Re: The Slopification of the CCG

I'll move back to LinkedIn. My last post here is the most crucial. Web 7.0 is intended to illustrate a test case and example that proves decentralized systems architecture and deployment (and spec creation) have changed forever.

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Web 7.0 Foundation

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From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2026 7:58:20 AM
To: NIKOLAOS FOTIOY <fotiou@aueb.gr>
Cc: Amir Hameed <amsaalegal@gmail.com>; Adrian Gropper <agropper@healthurl.com>; Kyle Den Hartog <kyle@pryvit.tech>; Juan Casanova <J.Casanova@hw.ac.uk>; Steve Capell <steve.capell@gmail.com>; Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>; Marcus Engvall <marcus@engvall.email>; public-credentials@w3.org <public-credentials@w3.org>
Subject: Re: The Slopification of the CCG

On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 3:53 AM NIKOLAOS FOTIOY <fotiou@aueb.gr<mailto:fotiou@aueb.gr>> wrote:
I think we are losing the context here. The problem is that certain perfectly identifiable individuals spam the list with mostly meaningless, self-promotional content. For example, every couple of messages I receive some web 7.0 irrelevant, non sense. AI tools have just made their job easier to generate content. Blaming AI tools is just a polite way to say to those individuals “please stop you are creating too much noise”

+1 -- Nikos has nailed it.

Maybe the solution here is to fall back to what we've done to these sorts of engagements in the past:

Politely ask them to stop... and if they don't stop, politely ask them to leave... and if they don't leave, ban them from the mailing list.

To be clear, I don't think we are anywhere near the latter two steps... I think we're at the "politely ask them to stop" phase -- and we've already had good responses by at least two out of the three parties that have been called out.

I do commend the community for being so polite about it... while it can be far more painful to be polite, and there is a limit to that politeness -- it's one of the best qualities of this particular group of people on the mailing list.

-- manu

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