Gregory's Server
It should go without saying: I don't mean people actually acting like arseholes or literally demanding things.
The problem is how the above has quickly become what everyone is told when even just discussing features, or the lack of them.
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 It's paradox of tolerance for internet moderation. If a forum is going to support a culture where contributions are freely expressed, it has to have moderators who know what a "pipe down" looks like and aggressively suppress them. This obviously provokes "mods censored me! mods censored me!" which is both a surface analysis, criticism and a fact. I think forums where posting rules are strict and membership is an uncommon privilege have squared that circle already in the past.  @gamingonlinux Yeah... There's a spectrum between discussion and entitlement, and the internet tends to be a bad place for that kind of subtlety. >_> @gamingonlinux I think the problem isn't the statement, you really CAN'T dictate what someone does in their free time, its the fact its someone speaking for someone else. If anyone has the right to tell you that, its the person doing the actual work and not some weird stan. @gamingonlinux yes, and any one that works enough on a large enough and public enough open project, needs to learn to ignore the random feedback from the internet. |
@gamingonlinux looks like I've been lucky not to come across that then! Maybe it's more common in certain parts of the FOSS sphere?