Thank you all for your feedback!
nexos wrote:
I believe you can enter a comment when reporting a post, so you could tell the mods what the problem is.
Indeed that's possible. On the other side, I still don't think it makes a lot of sense to report a single post as part of the problem, and that's because multiple reports about a single larger problem makes the reporting disjunct. There is also the problem that trying to select the most relevant posts to the case can be a time-consuming and error-prone process. However, I can resort to doing just that, if necessary.
nexos wrote:
There is enough drama in the world right now. How about we make this place peaceful. I am very surprised that the mods are yet to do anything.
Indeed, we absolutely don't need or want any more drama and, in fact, I suspect you nexos didn't intend that, just like I didn't. We just wanted to have the moderators know about it, correct?
StudlyCaps wrote:
I would recommend sending a PM to Octocontrabass and klange, I believe they are the most active mods. If you have a concern about the site which you do not wish to discuss in public then sending a PM to the mods is a perfectly acceptable way to approach it.
We don't have any official confirmation from a moderator, but I think you are right after all.
I ended up PMing chase, Combuster, klange, Octocontrobass and pcmattman about the issues discussed here, namely the behavior of the member who decided to get some visibility once again, the inexistence of an obvious way to report continuous problems that aren't limited to a single post, and that there are only 2 moderators active (though another one visited the forums a couple of days ago).
zaval wrote:
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As for you, zaval, "a member here", "said member" and "the member who decided to get some visibility once again", I wasn't sure whether I should bother replying to your post and, if I did, whether my reply should be a serious or an ironic one. I assumed you are an adult, despite your actions indicating otherwise, so I decided to be absolutely serious with you.
In short, your reply just confirms and reinforces what I'm talking about. I haven't talked about you by name publicly until now on purpose, nor I linked to that thread or any thread you participated (or any thread for that matter). The reason was simple: I wanted to give you a chance to backtrack, reconsider your actions, and sincerely apologize for your past behavior or do nothing, presumably out of shame. Instead, you decided to reply in your usual manner. So, because you responded, the benefit of me not being entirely clear who I'm talking about no longer applies, not even for someone who doesn't know the full story. I thus will be now talking about you by name in this thread. I don't know if you realize it, but you ridiculed yourself, once again.
So, you replied with a load of insults directed at me. Most of it just went directly to /dev/null (a fun metaphor even if you dislike UNIX-like OSes). I don't really care. But some members, on the contrary,
do care, and this results in fights that no one really wants to waste time to either read or, even worse, participate in. You provoke them out of the blue.
For example, in the post you are talking about: you wanted to help someone. That's absolutely good that you like to help newcomers, but there was no reason to ridicule the OP's approach to development using a virtual machine, as your ridiculing only irritated everyone reading your post. Instead, constructively disagreeing is fine obviously, as it adds to the discussion, and without causing any conflicts. Indeed, you eventually need lots of actual real hardware, but few can invest money and space in a good sample of machines
before even starting development. But also, virtual machines are very useful for debugging.
Apart from this one, it's been already a couple of years that I have noticed that you routinely pick fights with other members here, thus this is a "chronic" problem. As an unregistered guest, it was especially irritating for me to read through all of the fights because I had nothing to do with that. Imagine if you went to a concert and the first violinist started yelling at the violist "you played this phrase wrong" in the middle of a movement. Despite the prevalence of viola jokes, it doesn't happen and, if it did, it would make headlines in at least the local newspapers and the violinist's contracts would be most likely all cancelled. A musical work has continuity and so should a public forum discussion, if we want it to be of even a little help.
Finally, some members I suspect might have personality weaknesses. You have to respect that. Not everyone has your "don't care" attitude. You can help someone in a polite way. You can also correct someone in a constructive way. And, if they get defensive for some reason, you don't need to escalate the discussion into a fight. And, remember, the more politely you help/correct someone, the less defensive will be the one you are referring to or are talking about. Do you understand that?
Your post here, zaval, was not worthy of a reply but I replied anyway. I will however refrain from replying to your posts again, unless you write a post worthy of a reply. If you don't want to write a such a post, for everyone's peace, don't waste your time trying to provoke yet another war. You shall not succeed this time.