Diane Mackay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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Sitting on any list where folks are abusive, especially in a constant matter, is really hard to do. It turns folks away. I used to sit on the users list to help answer questions, and I have been turned away, because I became tired of reading rude messages directed at OOo users, aka OOo /customers/ over and over again. I am now a fence sitter at the OOo project, trying to decide if I should stay or if I should go, and I have been asked to state some of things that has affected my desire to work for the project. I can say whole-heartily, this is one of those things. I have seen users being abused by OOo veterans since I first started the project, and now we do so consistently and we do it on the users list, of all places.
It would be a loss to the list if you went; I have two ways of getting past thisproblem First, I read the lists in a newsreader from gmane, which makes it easy to skip, and would, if I wanted to, make it easy to killfile people. This is not "community", but it makes it possible to help.
Secondly, every time I see a post from GRS, I think of the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons. This may not help everyone, but I find it works for me.
I think this is a common problem as this is now the *3rd* frequent and useful contributor that has said this. The only way to stop the problem is to fight back and swoop in when this happens. If you see someone post something ruse, also post something positive.
The problem is pervasive, but it will not go away if all the nice people stop helping.
Of course, everyone is free to do what they want, these are just my opinions.
-- Peter Kupfer -- Using OOo since 'OO4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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