in reply to can't we all just get along

I've noticed increased hostility lately here... can't we all just get along?

Labeling this a "we" problem doesn't help much. It tars everyone--including the majority who are getting along just fine--with the same brush, and it spreads the responsibility so thinly that nobody is responsible.

In most communities (including many companies) there are a few people like to rile things up, either out of boredom or out of an inability to handle other frustrations in their life, and there are people who like to react. While they're going at it, normal discourse gets drowned out. Eventually, the fire burns out, and things go back to normal for a while. The best advice in the meantime is to advise people to take deep breath before posting, and to avoid the temptation to feed the trolls.

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Re: Re: can't we all just get along
by zakzebrowski (Curate) on Feb 26, 2003 at 12:14 UTC
    roger on the we part... it just seemed recently that a bunch of flame war type posts were being front paged... which I'm not sure is a good thing... (I generally only read through a few front paged items, then on to new cpan modules, then sign off and do real work, so my experience recently may have been a bit biased...)
    Cheers,
    (Taking a deep breath now...)

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    Zak
    Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate - mysql's philosphy