On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/18/2010 05:37 PM, inode0 wrote: >> >> Whatever happened to the days when the planet was a place for >> contributors to express themselves, both personally and >> professionally, "warts and all?" > > Here is a specific example that bothers me: people harassed tatica about > aggregating on Planet her "Project 365" (photography) to the level she > stopped bothering about Planet, so now we miss even her excellent series > of GIMP video tutorials. > For me this is a perfect example of Planet getting past the threshold of > being a friendly place. And this is a great example of a community/non-community failure that really had nothing to do with the rules of engagement governing the use of the Fedora Planet. Prohibitions against girls in bikinis would not have prevented it. Prohibitions against big ass Ubuntu logos would not have prevented it. Scaring people into putting mosaic patterns over their forest fairies would not have prevented it. (By the way, if I were to choose the Fedora Planet post of the year it would go to that last one for making me laugh out loud.) People problems largely cannot be solved by policies as effectively as they can be avoided by example. And people problems can't entirely be avoided, it is a cost of doing business with people especially when almost all of the interaction is impersonal. Sometimes I think the best course of action is to say that was unpleasant, shrug it off, and move on. John _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
