LoudNoise wrote:sabret00the wrote:
I'll be the first to admit that the community, at least here hasn't made it easy by creating a hostile reception to the Mozilla staff
Part of our remit is being an advocacy site. By the time controversial things hit these pages folks have pretty well tried normal avenues and are sincerely pissed off. Since our moderation philosophy has always been more a matter of corralling rather then strictly defining "Constructive feedback" things can get heated. Mozilla's weakness for stuff like what Frank quoted here viewtopic.php?p=12803021#p12803021 doesn't exactly inspire a get deal of confidence nor is it usual. Such is life.
No matter how you look at it, there's no need to be rude or condone being rude. Heated debates are one thing, being rude another. Though I raised this point in another thread and so let's agree to disagree.
WLS wrote:Sorry, I don't think your message follows the intent of the new mailing list. Nothing constructive
Nothing constructive, and your type of off-topic message was one of the reasons the mailing list was created.
Your opinion probably varies.
I don't think it's possible to make a constructive counter-argument without data to argue against. Currently, we've got a situation of "we want to do x because of y" and y isn't a logical grounded argument. It's a baseless desire.
In all fairness to me, and anyone else that may have sent an email to the list after being directed to via the bug, it was upon direction. No one got up and suddenly decided to start hounding the mailing list.
Indeed, but alas.
As things stand, this process just isn't being handled correctly. As I asked in my email, is there actually data to support that more users render the browser unusable via customisation than users that customise the browser and continue to use it happily? I'd argue that should be the foundation of any sort of decision in this regards.