The forked elephant in the room

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 18/01/2024 3:51 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
> And while we're at it, can we please get rid of this "us vs. them" 
> mentality? We are all here for the same overarching reason: we're 
> enthusiastic about the D programming language. We all want it to 
> succeed, and we all want it to help us achieve our ideas and our goals. 
> It doesn't matter if you're on the DLF team, an employee at one of the D 
> shops, self-employed, or doing this just for fun. So let's please keep 
> that in mind when we're interacting with each other.

Part of the problem that allows this to exist is simply because Walter & 
Atila are not where the people are.

Yes Walter is active on the N.G., Atila isn't.

However neither are on Discord, the easiest of live chat methods that we 
have.

It is much harder to call someone a name, if they are responding 
directly to you.

Of course because Walter keeps saying, I don't care if you insult me 
(more or less) on the N.G. its not like us moderators can take action, 
because he has waived an awful lot of the expectation of respect in 
simply stating that.

It is a shame you didn't tell us how this was making you feel in the 
first instance. Once you told us I did I was able to change myself to 
lead changes. But only recently does the worst of the aggressors appear 
to have left.