Newcomers to the project may rarely stumble onto openSUSE-chat as their first point of contact any longer, but I'm sure it still happens. There are still millions of people out there with crappy Internet connections, for whom things like voice and video chat are still cumbersome and IRC are still fast and easy. On Fri, Apr 12, 2024, 2:28 AM Stefan Seyfried < stefan.seyfried@googlemail.com> wrote:
Am 11.04.24 um 21:53 schrieb Natasha Ament:
Hi Simon and others,
Even though I'm not a board member I do have an opinion about "toilet humour". It has no place in an open and welcoming environment. If you want to forge a stable and caring community and strive together for a better product toilet humour is borderline bigotry. Appeasement is not something that contributes to that stable and caring community where newcomers and advanced users can exchange thoughts without name calling, insults, and threats. Holy crap! (is this now bigotry, toilet humor, or even both? ;-)
Just to put some perspective in: I cannot imagine a newcomer trying to first contact openSUSE stumblig accidentally into opensuse-chat irc channel.
Newcomers don't use IRC. By definition, "uses IRC" means that this is not a newcomer but a (very) old fart. I mean, heck, even I am too young to still use IRC :-P
At least in my case, all these torches and pitchforks being wielded in this thread *is* about as much driving me (as a contributor) away as the stupid "humor" shown in some obscure communication channel. -- Stefan Seyfried
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman