Re: what's up with all the attitude
* ChadDavis <chadmichaeldavis@gmail.com> [2006 Nov 05 21:02 -0600]:
> I've recently started using this list. You might say that I've
> recently joined the debian community. Its great. Very intelligent
> and helpful. But what's with all the attitude people flash around
> here. Have the threads I read end up in some petty bickering.
I'll admit to not following every thread closely, in fact, many I delete
without reading at all. A mail agent like Mutt helps a lot in this
regard as I can quickly delete those threads that are uninteresting to
me.
As others have alluded to already, this list is subscribed to by many
people from many different walks of life who hold many differing
viewpoints. A great many of these subscribers live in the USA and with
another election cycle in progress a number of people have their dander
up. Fortunately, the incidents of that is low, even here, and in a few
weeks it will hopefully subside.
Sometimes people are having a bad day and send a message only to
(probably) later regret it. And there is the problem that this being a
text medium sarcasm or humor are often poorly conveyed.
This is just one of those parts of life where the best advice is to
just roll with it and glean the knowledge you need and ignore
everything else. It's hard to do, but a worthy goal.
- Nate >>
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