On Tuesday, 12 April 2016 at 14:57:33 UTC, Karabuta wrote:
On Monday, 11 April 2016 at 17:12:03 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Saturday, 26 March 2016 at 19:52:18 UTC, QAston wrote:
A person who advocates for a more welcoming community and
wishes for objective moderation introduces a divisive topic
You need to relax. The topic wasn't divisive. I haven't asked
for moderation. I haven't argued in favour of objectivity.
What is appropriate and not appropriate in an off-topic social
thread like this is entirely cultural. I don't consider
politics to be particularly contentious, and have never seen
it been made an issue of, outside of very narrow US contexts,
in my past _30_ years on the Internet. The overall problem
with this mentality is that you aren't supposed to mention
politics _in case_ someone gets offended, not because they
actually do get offended. Which pretty much makes it very
difficult to get a working democracy.
What _is_ a problem in these forums are the level of butt-hurt
personal focus, not the occasional social thread. This
community would be much better if there were more social
threads, actually. A general forum is _usually_ a catch-all
forum, so if you guys want to allow socialization, but don't
want off-topic threads you probably should consider creating a
separate social forum.
Of course, it seems like socialization is not a priority, but
then you won't see the formation of strong bonds either
(outside of IRC etc). Github doesn't really form strong ties.
The basic idea that people will form strong teams based on
code alone is not entirely well-founded.
+1
Say the 2 guys that contributed no code, what a surprise ! Who
could have predicted this ?
