[Adium-devl] Tone of forum posts

[Colin Barrett]

On Sep 16, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> 	So basically we just got a very long, very aggravated, very curse
> filled post on the forums (which I quickly moved to the war room).
> There was a lot of anger in the post, which was basically in response
> to some semi negative to negative responses he had gotten when
> originally posting some frustration on the forums.
>
> 	I'm just sending this to ask everyone to please watch what they say
> on the forums. If someone is being aggressive or rude, you do not
> need to be rude back. If you feel the need to post something
> sarcastic, the better tactic is to reword your post or not post at
> all. I personally just close the tab if I start typing anything that
> I think could be rude (I still post stuff sometimes, but I'm getting
> better I think)
>
> 	Yes, I realize this is me saying this, but this escalated and I do
> not feel that it needed to. If you aren't sure that what you are
> posting is going to be out of line, run it by someone else, or
> something.

Hey, thanks for sending this out. I think it's a really valid  
complaint that sometimes we all can be a little short on the forums,  
and we need to remember that we are the public face of Adium; we need  
to be especially careful on the forum where everything is archived and  
then indexed by Google.

I honestly haven't been to the forums in ages. Is there any worthwhile  
discussion there now? Or is it just more support requests? What can we  
do about getting smarter and more clueful people there? How can we  
make it a better place and raise the general bar of the discussion?

-Colin