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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Sorry... while I empathize with your concerns I think that's way, way too broad and an insult to the so-called "elite". It ignores that fact that we old-timers tend to complain about specific types, not "newbies" in general. Very specifically, the aggressive, hostile types who spit in the face of anyone who dares try to inject calm and reason into a rant. It happens far too frequently. I feel like "no good deed goes unpunished" is the rule lately.

There are two or more sides to any situation. It's easy to slam an "elite"... much more difficult to try seeing a situation through the eyes of another.

I'll try harder to look through yours, though.
... I don't honestly think I was trying to slam you ... and if you think it's easy to criticize the more established community here then you've not been a newbie on this forum recently!

... I'm a regular member of a number of different forums and run a help forum of my own, and as such I have similar issues with newbies who just want to rant, and don't want to help themselves by listening to the advice from more experienced members of the forum ... however, if I want to have a proper rant about anyone, or any new section of a forum community I will usually find somewhere private to do it ...

I do fully appreciate that you aren't slamming the whole of the new influx of n900 owners to this forum in any thread, but the tone is off-putting, and while it's clear that there's a distinct dislike of a particular type of newbie, there seems to be little appreciation for new members trying to help and little effort made by the established community to enable them to do so effectively ...

Thank you for taking my comments on board, and taking a moment to see things from the perspective of a newbie ... I really love the maemo concept, and don't want the n900 to destroy this forum and this community, and would like in the future to feel like I'm a helpful member of the community ...

Last edited by EmmaGx; 2010-01-22 at 23:45.
 

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