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0 pointsmicrocolonel8y ago0 comments

You'd be making a huge mistake, and if I were at a higher station than you when you did that, I would be very close to booting you if could be argued as a net good or neutral to do so.

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zimpenfish8y ago

Why would I be making a huge mistake? They are clearly incapable of behaving professionally and, since the whole thrust of that thread is "Arch wants to behave professionally", booting them would align with that perfectly.

microcolonelOP8y ago

Maybe the laid-back, results oriented nature of Arch Linux is what got it here. The IRC and mailing list are openly hostile to people who do not read the manual, and yet it has consistently been the best goddamn Linux distro on the planet earth for the solid five years I've used it. It is on the backs of people like this that Arch Linux was built, and if that laissez faire atmosphere deteriorates, I suspect the productivity will deteriorate with it.

jrimbault8y ago

(I am a full time arch user and occasionally read some of the mailing lists)

I don't see how the RTFM mentality and what you call "laid back" mentality are compatible.

Imo, Arch is one of the more severe/strict distros and communities.

Guess it's all perception.

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kw718y ago

When your goal is to have a wide audience as possible it is a good practice to avoid bad taste.

We could have the same scenario with smart alecks committing code that has "fun" var and function names.

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