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On 19 June 2010 19:59, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:54:25 +0200 |
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> Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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>> This is a point that deserves more consideration. One of the top |
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>> reasons (as witnessed in forum discussions) |
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> Unfortunately, that's selecting a rather biased audience. The success |
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> of a forum depends upon the number of active posters it has. The number |
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> of active posters it has depends upon how many people need to post |
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> there to get answers to questions, and how many wrong answers have to |
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> be given before the right answer comes up. Thus, by selecting from the |
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> forums, you're picking an audience that likes talking endlessly about |
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> communities, not one that likes to answer a question once, correctly, |
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> and then change things so the question doesn't need to be answered |
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> again. |
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That is an incredibly shortsighted and cynic look at the community. |
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Keep it off this list. |
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>> Does Gentoo really prefer to keep more sensitive people out instead |
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>> of effectively getting rid of repeat offenders? |
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> All bringing more sensitive people in does is cripples the |
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> distribution's ability to delivery any technical improvements, since |
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> everyone's time is wasted worrying about the whiners |
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Not at all. Instead of wasting time on flamewars, and people getting |
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upset and leaving because of the attacks, we'd have a bunch of people |
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who would know how to work together in a friendly way. That speeds up |
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the process to come to technical improvements. Once again: keep your |
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cynic, twisted look off this list. We have no use for it. |
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>> Think about it. What kind of people would you rather have in Gentoo? |
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> Personally, I'd like to see Gentoo start having the kinds of people who |
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> deliver a better product, not the kinds of people who worry that using |
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> a gender-ambiguous cow as a logo might be offensive. |
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Once again you are derailing the conversation. Nobody brought up |
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anything about a logo. |
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It is about whether Gentoo wants to keep around people like you, who |
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continually attack others, or whether it prefers to have people who |
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want to work together in a friendlier atmosphere. A smoother |
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cooperation is in the interest of technical improvements too. |
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There already is a distro that works like you envision it. It's called |
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Exherbo. You should try it, you might like it. I would suggest you |
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spend your time and energy on that, and leave Gentoo to do things the |
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friendlier way. |
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Cheers, |
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Ben |
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