Subj : Re: Fwd: Girls got chip p
To : Ravne
From : Denn
Date : Fri May 24 2024 12:21 pm
Re: Re: Fwd: Girls got chip p
By: Ravne to Denn on Fri May 24 2024 10:17 am
> Re: Re: Fwd: Girls got chip p
> By: Denn to Nightfox on Thu May 23 2024 01:14 pm
>
> >> If you really enjoy the hobby of BBSing, you have to ignore some of the
> bad
> >> stuff and not let it bother you too much.
> >> Nightfox
> De> That's true, but some of these guy's just get frustrated. But you're
> De> right they should ignore the negative.
>
> It's one thing to ignore negativity about technical abilities or reading
> comprehension. It's entirely another to have to ignore bigotry. I have no
> tolerance for intolerance. It's the year 2024, but we have a certain person
> throwing around slur words like it's 1985.
Having no tolerance for intolerance is still intolerance.
Negativity is mostly by a few, there are many people promoting posativity here to, those here that are willing to help the new ones enjoy the hobby.
Thats why I say just ignore the negativity.
>
> We talk here about wanting to appeal to more people, but then we allow
> people to make it feel hostile. The days of you older straight white men
> being the majority are ending, we need to appeal to those that are becoming
> the majority. If I hadn't been into BBSing in the mid 90s & had other women
> helping me feel welcome back then, there's probably no way I'd be here now.
No one should be in a majority, you want to take one majority and replace it with another, in fact we should all be reaching for middle ground.
I like Robs approach, when we ask noob questions he points us to the wiki page
to encourage us to look for and find the answers to our problems.
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