Personally, I've found other Linux forums to be friendly and welcoming. This one is not.
Sorry you feel unwelcome here. I usually don't stick around somewhere that I don't feel welcome unless I want or need something. What is it that you expect to get from here?
If you're overworked and tired of answering the same questions over and over, stop answering them. Someone else will. The world won't stop if you take a break.
You are sorely mistaken here. If the developers don't answer questions then posters reply to their own posts with things like "Thanks for nothing", "I came here for help and no one here knows anything", "I need this fixed now, why won't someone help me", etc.
Or the all popular (and this one just irritates me the most) "I can't be the only one having this problem, can't someone help?" when in fact if they would just search they will find several topics about their same problem.
Also, the developers have to scan the forums to direct people to the bug tracker so the bugs can get fixed and not lost in the forum after a few days. The developers HAVE to scan the forums and answer questions because most of us don’t know the answers, I sure don’t.
Take a week and scan the forums on an hourly basis and direct people in the right direction and see how frustrating it gets.
You might be a great programmer or developer but you need people skills too and I've seen a distinct lack of them nor even a modicum of civility in this forum.
You have hit the nail right on the head here. These guys are developers and damn good ones at that. Their skills are focused exactly where they should be to coding and not PR. If this community wants a real skilled PR director then we need to search out and pay for one. This will be a $100,000 a year job and at $1000 a month in donations, contribs.org is a bit short.
Unfortunately, last year when the leadership community "Roles" were designed we forgot to include a PR director. Since you seem to know something about PR, why don't you find us a couple of candidates for PR director that can spend 12 hours a day scouring the forums and making sure everyone is happy...Oh and by the way their only pay will be the satisfaction of what they will be doing. Then we can take a vote to change to constitution and then another vote to elect one of the candidates. Good Luck.
The point here is that everyone sure knows how to complain and some even have answers to the problems but no one steps up to the plate and does anything about it. This is a fairly large community and a small handful of people actually do anything to help.
If I can help someone, I do. If I can't help I go to the next topic and see if I can help there and so on. I don't get anything from this except the privilege of using this amazing OS. What everyone needs to realize is that using SME is not a right, it is a privilege that these developers spend a huge amount of their time making it possible for all of us and a lot of people here are abusing this sacred privilege.
Just think about what you are all complaining about here. You want (almost demand) the developers code, diagnose, fix, and put together a very complicated OS and then you also want (almost demand at times) that they come here and "chat it up politely" with people that often post in the wrong forum asking repeated and sometimes blatantly stupid questions.
This is a double edged sword and if people keep complaining and not helping, the developers could easily stop everything and I wouldn't blame them one bit. Then where would we be? Remember, always be careful what you ask for, you might just get it.
So, either help or stop complaining.
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