On 8/4/05, matthew g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > I want to know if you guys like me? Would you guys like me to participate > in active disscusion? Please tell me the truth. > I'm very unsure of a lot of things. I know for a fact when I was at school > not to many people liked me. I figure it because I'm a "Computer Geek" and I > didn't like sports. So I'm very lost. > > So what do you guys thing about me? ----- Do you care if I never go back to > the the forums and irc? Please tell me the truth and please dont LIE!
Wow... ummm... Listen: No one hates you, we don't wish you dead, we don't hate your mom. Nothing like that. Many people like the fact that someone so young is a competent linux user. The "problem" that brought this on isn't related to you at all - it is related to your behavior. You had been warned numerous times about proper behavior. I understand you are young, and should be given some leeway, but the fact of the matter is - you were given too much. You need to learn to behave yourself. There is a "public" way of acting and a "private" way of acting. You may beat up a younger sibling and/or call them names in a private setting, but in a public setting you can just put a stranger in a headlock and give him wedgies. Above all else, the archlinux forums and IRC channels are for help and recruitment of new users. They are not places to "party". You have to realise that users that come upon either the forums or IRC channel do not know who's who, and will think that each and every user is "the average user" - if someone steps onto the irc channel or the forums and asks "hey what's so special about arch?" and someone (anyone) replies with a stupid yo-mamma joke, that user will most likely be turned off. Participating in the archlinux community makes you slightly representative of the distro. Yes, the community is fun, and interesting, and all that jazz - I mean why else would I spend so much time with it (heh). But first and foremost you have to think how other people will view the distro when they happen upon it. I, for one, am thankful to Judd and all the developers (well maybe not Xentac, :P) for making such a great distro, so I am willing to "pimp it out" and make it look good. Your IRC ban, was for this reason. Not because I, or anyone else, hates you. But because we like Arch. - phrakture - _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
