On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Donald Whytock <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Do you really want to discuss a users behavior in public? >> Wow, I really don't want to do that. I strongly believe that only a >> few people would discuss another guys behavior in public. > > It happens. In fact it happened here, on this list, yesterday. There > was some pretty excessive vitriol, open and in public. And yet it > seemed to work into more mature and rational discussion today. > > If behavior discussions are going to occur at all, it's probably > better that they happen in public rather than there be the feeling of > a secret faceless committee to which users can neither respond nor > appeal. The latter can lead to discontent.
It might be different to discuss roughly at the dev forums were most people know each other than in a public message boards were even my grandmother might participate. At this project I heard the term "end users" very often; I don't think you can use the same rules of heavy geek-discussion for end users of OpenOffice.
