Subj : Re: Fwd: Girls got chip p
To   : Denn
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Sat May 25 2024 16:12:00

  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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