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From: Christian Grobmeier <grobmeier@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 16:59:21 +0200
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Subject: Re: An invitation to committers to the OOo Community Forums
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On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Donald Whytock <dwhytock@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Christian Grobmeier <grobmeier@gmail.com>=
 wrote:
>> Do you really want to discuss a users behavior in public?
>> Wow, I really don't want to do that. I strongly believe that only a
>> few people would discuss another guys behavior in public.
>
> It happens. =C2=A0In fact it happened here, on this list, yesterday. =C2=
=A0There
> was some pretty excessive vitriol, open and in public. =C2=A0And yet it
> seemed to work into more mature and rational discussion today.
>
> If behavior discussions are going to occur at all, it's probably
> better that they happen in public rather than there be the feeling of
> a secret faceless committee to which users can neither respond nor
> appeal. =C2=A0The latter can lead to discontent.

It might be different to discuss roughly at the dev forums were most
people know each other than in a public message boards were even my
grandmother might participate. At this project I heard the term "end
users" very often; I don't think you can use the same rules of heavy
geek-discussion for end users of OpenOffice.