Subj : Re: Fwd: Girls got chip p
To   : Ravne
From : Denn
Date : Fri May 24 2024 12:21:29

  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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