[OT] Re: Redesign of dlang.org

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 09:58:59AM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 7/28/14, 12:29 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> >I am contributing but you are completely ignoring me and attacking
> >what i'm saying. I've been a professional web application developer
> >for years and have a lot of experience with design and UX. Everybody
> >here is completely ignoring that fact! You don't even understand
> >branding. So what's the point of me trying to contribute?

Your hostile tone may have contributed to that reaction, however
justified your arguments may have been. Coming into a volunteer project
and telling people things like "this is garbage", "this is amateurish",
"you should stop", "you don't understand anything at all", is very
hostile, and therefore likely to provoke a negative reaction, even if
the work concerned actually *is* garbage, amateurish, etc..

As Andrei said (quoted below), if instead of tearing others'
(voluntary!) work into pieces, you produce a superior piece of work and
show it (even if it's just a concept sketch of the end result, not the
actual implementation), it will be much more convincing, and people will
be much more likely to listen to you. As they say, "show, don't tell".


> I've been in similar situations in the past so I sympathize. The one
> thing I noticed gets the point across is to just do good work and just
> show it.  People otherwise ignorant of what goes into a piece of work
> _can_ often appreciate a compelling end result.
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