On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 21:22:37 -0500 Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 7:01 PM Gerald Pfeifer <gp@suse.com> wrote:
In public conversations like this there are observers, and what they see affects their own, future behavior. Which may include remaining silent for fear of being shamed. Or leaving. Or ...
I see Neal raising this a strong signal that we all should consider.
In my experience in the Linux Discord communities (especially the openSUSE one), I have dealt with *many* complaints about the mailing lists, and people being afraid to contribute because of how people respond on the lists. I was pushed over the edge after reading the excerpt in my original post after trying to convince someone in the openSUSE Discord community that contributing to openSUSE is easy and fun, and not scary.
Not only that, anyone following this list knows there have been people leaving it as a result of inappropriate responses.
I want this community to be even more awesome than it already is, so that's why I brought it up.
Yes and we can always do better. When I started participating and failed to follow the netiquette, some nice people emailed me privately to explain and I appreciated that. As said by someone else earlier I think this an appropriate way to avoid "shaming people" and prevent frustrating threads. Cheers, Maurizio -- Maurizio Galli (m4u9) Xfce Team https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Xfce