On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 22:57, <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 08:52:48AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Why in the hell [...] > Now try in a more polite and friendly way. [...] > Thanks for trying :) I agree that polite and friendly is the goal. I see that a polite way was tried already by several people. When people ask for help, but then avoid being helped, it's dubious behaviour. In forum like this, such situations occur from time to time. Sometimes a means of self-protection is required, especially for people who expend effort help to others without reward. There will always be people who don't communicate well, or those who will take what suits them, perhaps repeatedly, but will never give back anything, except perhaps negativity. That's to be expected. But the worst effect of community-parasites (trolls, help vampires, etc) is when they trigger conflict amongst the active, contributing, valuable members of the communities that they feed off. Let's have sufficient awareness to avoid that here. I don't like to see bickering or denigration of anyone here, but especially regular contributors with expertise. The people who do give back. And especially when questions are not even about Debian-project software. I've written a few shitty messages to this list too, when people don't meet my expectations of behaviour. But usually when I'm finished, I press "delete" instead of "send", and then find something fun to do instead :) To everyone who contributes here ... thank you for your work!