Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Apr 4 20:22:18 UTC 2013



Am 04.04.2013 17:43, schrieb Lailah:
> El vie, 29-03-2013 a las 14:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan escribió:
>> On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 09:55 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
>> > When people talk about choosing FOSS software like Fedora, "a strong
>> > community" is always cited.
>> > 
>> > May we declare a moratorium on meta-discussions?  If someone doesn't
>> > give enough info, ask them for more, and that's all.  Going off on top
>> > posting, depth of quoting, typos, etc makes the list a hostile place.
>> > 
>> > If you don't have something nice or helpful to say, don't say it.
>>
>> If nobody ever says it, how do you expect newbies top learn?
>>
>> > If you need more info, ask for it. If you suspect they don't know what
>> > they're doing, offer some assistance on how they can get that info.
>> > 
>> > Quite frankly, if I were a newbie and I had a question and were met with
>> > such hostility, I'd think twice about all that stuff about the value of
>> > "the community".
>> > 
>> > Thanks for listening.
>>
>> Oh the humanity! You do realize you hijacked a thread to post this,
>> don't you?
>>
>> poc
> 
> Oh!  Really?  I didn't realize it.  What thread you say he hijacked?  I can't see it...

no one

POC is trolling sometimes and even the thread starter began
to believe he did a mistake while verybody with a useable
mail-client can see that the new subject has it's own thread

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