On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:41:40PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > deloptes wrote: > > @Brian communication with Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside is meaningless and > > a waste of time. > > You should have stopped here. > > > > I even had to google her, because I had the feeling I talk to a troll. I > > think she is extreme left ... lost in gendering and so on somewhere in > > French Canada, but I do not have any evidence for that. However the > > information I found > > At this point, you crossed the line in my head. > > There is no way in which the gender of any participant in > debian-users is relevant. Nor their sexuality, religion, skin > color, national origin, or even the fact that they use other > operating systems from time to time.
See also the FAQ I post each month :) > > There are occasionally issues that relate to where someone is > operating a computer -- WiFi bands, hardware availability, censorship > issues come to mind -- but none of those are relevant in the > current discussion, so whatever your problem with Canadians, > Québécois(e) or Francophones is, I suggest that you forget about > it until it becomes relevant. > > Finally, if someone doesn't bring up their politics on-list, > there's no call for you to bring up their politics on-list. You > can silently avoid helping as much as you please. > > And in conclusion, plonk! > > -dsr- > Be considerate to each other. Be polite - be helpful. There's no need to dig into people's backgrounds to try and work out why they annoy you - get over it and treat them well. When you annoy them, with luck, they'll do the same. Debian is a HUGE community - every political viewpoint, every religious viewpoint, shades of sexual orientation and identity, shades of gender - often the only thing that unites us is that we use/are interested in/ keep up with Debian. That doesn't mean to say that personality doesn't come up - just that it's a secondary consideration. Stick around for a while and you discover what are hot topics - what you can say to push someone's crumple buttons. [Everyone has a button/hot topic that sets them going: your attitude/your tone or the words you use might remind them of an unfortunate situation/ bad experiences or just life experiences. Hit on it accidentally and you can make them want to fight you/burst into tears or whatever - unexpected quite often.] Don't set out to punch people's crumple buttons: hit them deliberately and some people double over just as much as if you'd hit them in the stomach Trying to make Debian a better place starts one post at a time. That's one of the reasons why I volunteer for the Debian community team. [And yes, this can readily be seen as pious politcal correctness liberal bullshit and irrelevant and you can all ignore it - until the time when it suddenly becomes important to you on an issue you care about - or you appreciate someone more for trying to help you when you're down.] And now back to tech stuff - and a release to get out :) All best, Andy C
