Subj : Re: Fwd: Girls got chip p
To : Denn
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Sat May 25 2024 04:12 pm
Re: Re: Fwd: Girls got chip p
By: Denn to Ravne on 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 t
> > 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 pers
> > 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 h
> 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 becomi
> > the majority. If I hadn't been into BBSing in the mid 90s & had other wom
> > helping me feel welcome back then, there's probably no way I'd be here no
>
> No one should be in a majority, you want to take one majority and replace i
> I like Robs approach, when we ask noob questions he points us to the wiki p
> to encourage us to look for and find the answers to our problems.
>
Sometimes the author gives bad pointers back. I asked once for help finding
the right area on the wiki for something very specific, listing all the pages I
had tried, and what part I was missing.
Link came bach with the root page of the wiki (obviously useless). I never
asked again. No, I never found it either.
xxcarol
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