On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 5:43 PM, jdd
I would like to know the opinion of the candidates about the recent action of the board presently discussed on this list.
if you had been in the board, would you have supported this action or not and why?
Hi JDD, I take very serious the base line on this discussion. If we have someone which is being accused of something, I would never allow such an extreme measure to be applied without granting the right of the person being accused of defending himself. In this case and others, I would have a 'Solomonic' position. During my experience on online gaming communities (World of Warcraft being the last, for nearly 5 years), I've played in some top level guilds. We never lack player applications by several motivations, but we knew which players we wanted. Someone who gives a lot of time to WoW is usually dubbed a no-lifer, and often the best players have really crappy social skills and are much ego based persons. This kind of situations happened a lot (insults, fights, etc). At first we used Administrative punishment for this... No raids for a given time frame (we loss the player). Kicked/Banned of the Guild, we loss the player and encourage others to eliminate competition by providing in increasing number of accusations. We started being Solomonic on this and we found out most of the times there weren't really any innocents... just players managing their situation and looking for a better shot to get gear. How did it stopped? We stopped taking action on most cases... and we encouraged everyone to ignore in-game the people which they were having problems with. It worked out like a charm... The accusations number decreased... people started focusing more on their role for the Guild and the fight suddenly stopped. There were exceptions which were handled mercilessly, but only when everything else failed. People still interacted on the collective in the areas where they had to work together, but stopped with all the dramas... Drama was nearly reduced to 0% and we lived some of the best days and brought Glory to the Horde with more server first kills and Faction first kills. Everyone on the server (Grim Batol Europe) wanted to play with us because we had a drama-free environment. This particular has a very strong in-game position of Elitism, which attracted a lot of troubled people... but we handled it. Based on this and on my interaction with gnokii, I can say that if I had problems with gnokii and muted/blocked/ignored him, I could still make my stuff, he could still make his stuff and we had no reason for coalitions because there was mainly no communication between us. This should've been the first choice amongst the parties... Yes I would preach and try to make them realize that it could become a nice solution and reduce the drama to zero. If that failed, then I would do what most people do everywhere... 3 strikes... strike #1 > Private Warning strike #2 > Public Warning strike #3 > You are out (membership removal). I have some very serious doubts if I would ever vote 'yes' on a total boot of a contributor, specially when it's one that I see in him lack of confidence (Iv'e noticed the need of having others approval on his work). If a project wants to be open to the community and wants to live from the stream of the community, are we actually entitled to ban someone? I mean, in the worst case if everyone pops blocks/ignores on someone, at some time that person will realize that he/she is alone and that no one cares anymore for it. Much of this 'bullying' issue is motivated by the lack of attention (statistically). If no one cares about repeated insults, eventually the person will stop or even walk away by it's own initiative. I mean, this looks like pretty much common sense ? I do leave though a stronger warning for the future and for whoever goes to the Board. If your goal is to expand the community, specially through a wider audience, more people sharing this symptoms will appear. We better start to learn how to live with them.... and how to turn bad output into good inputs... It's not the first time on this community that I see some people taking the worst that others have to attack them. Gnokii isn't the only. Unfortunatly, I try to take best people have and motivate them even for greater deeds. But that's just me. I hope it's answered. NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org