Thread: Campaign for a Friendlier Maemo
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2009-12-23 , 13:14
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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.
F'king "A", bubba...

I see sub-forums now and that is a start. A lot could be eliminated if a simple "Phone related" forum with sub-fora was created. Then the mislabeled "rude, know-it-all, geek types" can avoid those posts altogether and hopefully specific Maemo 2, 3, 4, and 5 threads can carry on as they have in the past.

As far as political correctness goes, what works for me is to treat forums like a huge cocktail party.
There are some discussions you don't want to be a part of, some guests you enjoy being around no matter what is discussed, and other guests you try to avoid making eye contact with.

Within these conversations people will react pretty much the same on a forum or at a cocktail party. If someone wants to enter a conversation, people are generally polite and make them feel comfortable. If that new person tries to dominate the conversation or redirect it to one about themselves, or inject vitriol, unless they are Julia Roberts, most others will walk away to "freshen their drink" or something.

Since Julia hasn't showed up yet, I've been freshening my drink a lot lately.
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