Thread: Campaign for a Friendlier Maemo
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2009-12-23 , 12:16
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#11
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
I still think this is a non-problem. We have 29,074 registered users, and maybe every other month or so I see one of them complaining about how bad the tone in this forum is. So that would be 6 complaints a year... let's be generous and make it 12... and let's also assume it's 12 distinct users who complain. Out out 29,074.

I admit there may be a few forum members here who just don't follow the rules of civilized communications. Well, you can always ignore these. I think there's currently two or three nicknames on my ignore list, and that was it. Again, two or three out of 29,074.

What I'm trying to say is yes, there may be single incidents that you could point your finger at and say "Here! Look! That wasn't nice!" - but compared to the mass of posts generated here each day, it's not worth dealing with them more than we do now.
I agree that the vast majority of posters here go about it in a very civilized manner, but the few that don't create a lot of problems I think.

Perhaps the most worrying thing, to me at least, is where these types of uncivilized posts appear. In my, albeit rather limited, experience on this forum the majority of animosity is found on the threads posted by new users or most likely to be read by new, or prospective for that matter, users. That means that it has a discouraging effect for new people to join the community, which may be a big problem, especially if say Texrat is trying to get new developers on board and the first thing they see is animosity towards questions.