On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 02:40:14PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > > You don't have to like it, you have to put up with it, and deal with > > it in a rational manner *regardless* of how much you do or do not > > like it. > We HAVE to put up and deal with that every day in our lifes, I mean > IRL (in real life), outside of the Internet. Don't mind, we're already > used to it, it won't kill us. > The problem is that IRL we have no chice, whether we like it or we > don't, while for a volunteer thing like this is up to us to decide if > it's worth it or not. I've not clear my mind yet in that aspect, I'm > still evaluating pros and cons, so no conclusions yet.
> I think it's rational enough to put in a balance what you give and > what you get and take your decision from that. I mean, if all I'm > getting is fightings, trolls, sexism, competitiveness, aggressiveness, > politics and things like that, well, I don't really have fun with all > those things. But if I get some support, friendship, cooperativeness, > something to be proud off, then it's probably worth it. Well said. > Maybe I don't have the appropiate personality to join Debian (to be > honest it's one of the things I'm considering, it's not a complain). > I'll keep thinking on that. And maybe I'm not the only one standing in > that point. Maybe you just have a real life and do not need to emulate one on the internet. This does not rule out being part of the Debian community in any way. Michael
