Hello!
I am aware that this applies only to certain people, but what they do affects how we are seen as a community.
Recently I have become more active community member and I am getting frustrated when I see the frequency !patchwanted is thrown at people on our IRC channel.
Now, I'm not talking about the situation when someone is flooding the channel with "FIX IT CUZ ITZ BROKE AND I WANT IT TO WORK". I'm sure such individual would be (and should be) kicked or banned.
But if someone is pointing out that we need improvement and immediately @puckipedia comes out with "!patchwanted" followed by "The thing is, complaining will do nothing" and "either be silent or fix it yourself", that is annoying.
Well, guess what, throwing "!patchwanted" at everyone who comes to general channel also will do nothing. Worse, it will scare people off. We must accept the fact, that people who come to general channel may not have the skills, and that's OK, because it is GENERAL channel. What is happening now is us (the community) telling them that either they fix something or they can GTFO because they're useless.
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Even though I can code, I am not always knowledgeable enough to fix some issues. Most people aren't. Yet everyone who criticizes something can expect he will get "!patchwanted" (necessarily with an exclamation mark) as an answer.
On the general channel. Nice.
Regards
