[oclug][OT] List Police

[Raymond Wood]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:34:28PM -0500, Shad Young imagined:

> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 21:12, Milan Budimirovic wrote:
> > Well, Shad, you're the one who is always saying that the Linux community
> > should embrace the rest of the world. But guess what? There's an awful
> > lot of people out there who equate all Linux advocates with
> > the Slashdot crowd. It's a real problem, whether you want to
> > see it or not. At a certain point you have to put your foot
> > down and tell people to grow up, because these juvenile
> > posts reflect badly on the entire list, and the entire
> > community.

> Granted, which is why I am as careful as I can be to check
> spelling, punctuation, capitalization and grammar when I post.
> I even appreciated (was it Charles?) the post about the
> semantic  difference between "raises the question" and "begs
> the question". (I meant beg BTW, in my mind there were still
> some grey areas. ;) ) 
> 
> The point being it is not appropriate under your above defined
> criteria to flame and insult a poster for his style. If Bill
> or Brad had concerns then the right thing to do was mail
> Gabriel off-line and let him know their feelings, not ridicule
> him.
> 
> Shad

When an individual ignores strong preferences of members of a
community s/he has recently joined, then sometimes people get
flamed.

If I knew my behaviour was annoying some individuals to the
point where they were posting repeatedly, and flaming, in an
effort to get my attention -- well, I might just consider
looking for a solution, or at least a compromise.

In my view, the only thing harder to read than such 'poorly
delimited text' is ALL UPPER CASE TEXT, which is universally
recognized as Bad Netiqette.

My $0.02,
Raymond
-- 
"You deserve to be able to cooperate openly and freely with other
people who use software.  You deserve free software."
 -Richard M. Stallman, Free Software Foundation, http://www.fsf.org
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