Simon wrote:
> "Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message 
> news:47169aa0$1@news.povray.org...
> 
>>Normally I would suggest you grow a thicker skin, but in this case maybe 
>>just a skin,... or a membrane,... or something.
> 
> 
> Why? as I mentioned - I can live with it. The issue is when new users post 
> polite, genuine questions and then end up sitting through arguments and 
> abuse. and why should they have to put up with that crap?
> 

They shouldn't but I guess since I don't subscribe to all the groups,... 
like new users for instance,... I may not have witnessed the bad manners 
you saw.  I just meant that in comparison with times past, things have 
been pretty tame around here...to the point that I wasn't sure if you 
were serious, even.

We try to be as welcoming as possible, though we may have lost a few of 
our more adept personalities in that regard. We have also mellowed a bit 
from the days when POV developers held a lot of status and liked to 
exert it. Chris Cason recently pointed out there are only two left. But 
there is still going to be a minimal hazing to determine that the person 
is serious enough to at least try reading the manual.  We have had some 
different and exploitive personalities show up over the years.  There is 
still no particular reason the internet is any less a wild place.

Recent discussions surrounding a new and openly developed povray I find 
quite encouraging.  If a few occasional sparks fly it just tells me that 
people are actually paying attention and care.  But it seemed a very 
heathy discourse to me, though most of it went over my head.  Compared 
with past dicussions on the topography of POV I saw no flames, just some 
embers to indicate the fire is still going.

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