Hi All, With the advent of forum.openscenegraph.org developed ably by Art Tevs we have a great new avenue for users to choice whether they prefer forum or mailing list for support... which is great but... for mailing list users the posts from forum members have become rather impersonal, with all too cryptic usernames, something that can happen with emails too but is happening far more readily with forum members. Once postings starting loose who they are from they also loose the self regulating and personal nature to them, and it makes bad tempered posts more likely, either at original source, or in response.
Making the effort to make your posts more personable and friendly is a great help to general health of the community, signing posts might seem like a small thing, but it really doesn't make a huge difference - it's a big step to making exchanges friendly and positive. Dozens of times of the last month I've have to ask users to make this tiny little bit of effort, but with more forum users this is becoming a uphill struggle. Might there be a technical solution to this? Does the forum software have the data to properly sign emails, or to put a proper name in the address? Either way a solution of some kind really needs to be found. In the meantime I can enforce my own little mechanism of just ignoring all posts with a cryptic author name... so if you want support you'll need to make the effort to be curtious. Thanks in advance for all your friendly signatures ;-) Robert.
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