A Proposal to the Entire DASH Community:
Hello, my name is Bill Cassidy and I've been an enthusiastic supporter of DASH since March 2014. Over the course of the last 3 months I've become more involved with the community on dashtalk, reddit, slack and BCT. I am aware of the trolling, arguments and quite literally bullcrap happening in this specific thread. In fact most people around the community are aware of it.
I get it. As supporters of DASH sometimes we are compelled to respond to the people who BASH it. We are compelled to defend the very thing we put our time, money and effort into.
Trolling is not some new phenomenon. Anybody who knows a thing or two about internets knows damn well trolls exists and will always exists. The thing is they want you to respond, they want you to feel compelled to argue. it gives them satisfaction knowing that they somehow got to you one way or another.
So you may think that you are doing some justice to DASH by defending it against the BASHERS. But you are not. All you are doing is giving them exactly what they want.
What really sucks is that on BCT the users you ignore are not hidden. Instead we see a little box that says "this user is currently ignored" - sometimes when I see this I feel compelled to unignore the person to see what they say. I'm sure some of you feel that compulsion as well.
The Proposal:
At page 5000 we just stop giving them what they want.
I know how hard it is. I know how badly you want to respond. I know there are people who have said this over, and over and over again. But it does nothing for the community. Lets make a pact as a community to ensure the next 5000 pages do not contain any responses to the BASHERS of us DASHERS.
Hello, my name is Bill Cassidy and I've been an enthusiastic supporter of DASH since March 2014. Over the course of the last 3 months I've become more involved with the community on dashtalk, reddit, slack and BCT. I am aware of the trolling, arguments and quite literally bullcrap happening in this specific thread. In fact most people around the community are aware of it.
I get it. As supporters of DASH sometimes we are compelled to respond to the people who BASH it. We are compelled to defend the very thing we put our time, money and effort into.
Trolling is not some new phenomenon. Anybody who knows a thing or two about internets knows damn well trolls exists and will always exists. The thing is they want you to respond, they want you to feel compelled to argue. it gives them satisfaction knowing that they somehow got to you one way or another.
So you may think that you are doing some justice to DASH by defending it against the BASHERS. But you are not. All you are doing is giving them exactly what they want.
What really sucks is that on BCT the users you ignore are not hidden. Instead we see a little box that says "this user is currently ignored" - sometimes when I see this I feel compelled to unignore the person to see what they say. I'm sure some of you feel that compulsion as well.
The Proposal:
At page 5000 we just stop giving them what they want.
I know how hard it is. I know how badly you want to respond. I know there are people who have said this over, and over and over again. But it does nothing for the community. Lets make a pact as a community to ensure the next 5000 pages do not contain any responses to the BASHERS of us DASHERS.
Good thinking Rusta - Bust
i am all in !
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