Banned... No good deed goes unpunished

It's a shame, but what can you really do.  Although the Raspberry Pi StackExchange is good for questions, the "official" forums are not good for real community.

And yes, it seems extremely silly that one is not allowed to discuss a NEWS article written by a journalist investigating a consumer/supply chain issue for a BUSINESS website.

While it might not be constructive to discuss these problems in a forum about the Raspberry Pi itself, it certainly does raise questions which people should be concerned about with supply chain and sales - especially people who may be considering school orders.  Also, since there are limited places to purchase an RPi, discussion about WHERE to purchase has become relevant to the community.  If they were more widely available, there would be little discussion about how and where to purchase them or issues with particular vendors problem.  The supply problems do reflect poorly on the foundation, that's a simple fact.  Banning discussion of that isn't going to make the problem better.

It doeas all rather reek of desperate (and inept) damage limitation.

I would tend to blame "The Foundation" and the attitude they have to resolving anthing.

http://www.element14.com/community/thread/20013?tstart=0

Welcome to the club.

There are plenty of other forums to discuss the RPi without being subject to a tos which actually says "if we deem we will tell your ISP."

If you wish live chat, head over to IRC Freenode #raspberrypi.

Mike,

  Welcome to the land of the banned.

You clearly have been a long-time supporter of the RPi, and obviously

were trying to be helpful, so I'm sure it's painful.  JamesH has mentioned

frustrations that go beyond what is public, so maybe you just happened

to step into a really sore subject.  Fortunately you didn't suggest adding

the article to the "news articles" thread.

I think the conventional wisdom is that organizations shouldn't try to

hide from bad press, so your advice was sound.  But the RPF apparently

knows what it is doing.  As they say,

"We're business geeks as well as computer geeks."

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=4912&p=65834

You know, that post of Liz's always made me laugh. At the first Jam I went to, Rob Bishop was there in which he said, basically but not in these words, that they were all nerdy geeks and didn't really have a business brain between them.

http://www.element14.com/community/thread/18880

Not sure who's the biggest liability ;-)         

Don't let it bother you, Michael.  It's a bit unfortunate that they are totally lacking in any professional ability to handle community relations without going nuclear, but it's their problem, not ours.  Someone will write a book about it one day.

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

 

Don't let it bother you, Michael.  It's a bit unfortunate that they are totally lacking in any professional ability to handle community relations without going nuclear, but it's their problem, not ours.  Someone will write a book about it one day.

Someone got banned for saying that!

coder27 wrote:

 

http://www.element14.com/community/thread/18880

Four months later and that's truer than ever.