Banned... No good deed goes unpunished

They only banned my username on the raspberry pi forums so I can still scan them as a guest although I am not sure that I want to any more as if my raspberry pi doesn't arrive soon i'll cancel my RS order and use the money for something else like beer or a tablet to rip apart. but i'm curious about one thing. in this thread i've seen a couple of the admins and mods names from that other place mentioned but they have loads of admins and mods so are they ALL nasty or are some of them actually ok?

David Ross wrote:

 

They only banned my username on the raspberry pi forums so I can still scan them as a guest although I am not sure that I want to any more as if my raspberry pi doesn't arrive soon i'll cancel my RS order and use the money for something else like beer or a tablet to rip apart. but i'm curious about one thing. in this thread i've seen a couple of the admins and mods names from that other place mentioned but they have loads of admins and mods so are they ALL nasty or are some of them actually ok?

JMO/YMMV: in general, the RasPi staff are hard-working and dedicated and try to be helpful.  But they're human and each has his or her quirks and there are topics you have to either avoid or comment on very carefully.  They're very busy (and get tired) and have to deal with a lot of rude e-mail we don't see, so I'm not surprised that sometimes one of them lashes out in a way that seems extreme if you haven't been following RasPi for a long time.

Since we're usually discussing problems here at element14, it's easy to get the impression that there are nothing but problems chez RasPi.  In fact, most of the discourse there is technical and helpful.  Today I'd like to compliment jamesh for his polite response to a difficult first poster in this RasPi thread.  RasPi gets a lot of this sort of nonsense so I admire jamesh's restraint.

David Ross wrote:

 

They only banned my username on the raspberry pi forums so I can still scan them as a guest although I am not sure that I want to any more as if my raspberry pi doesn't arrive soon i'll cancel my RS order and use the money for something else like beer or a tablet to rip apart. but i'm curious about one thing. in this thread i've seen a couple of the admins and mods names from that other place mentioned but they have loads of admins and mods so are they ALL nasty or are some of them actually ok?

JMO/YMMV: in general, the RasPi staff are hard-working and dedicated and try to be helpful.  But they're human and each has his or her quirks and there are topics you have to either avoid or comment on very carefully.  They're very busy (and get tired) and have to deal with a lot of rude e-mail we don't see, so I'm not surprised that sometimes one of them lashes out in a way that seems extreme if you haven't been following RasPi for a long time.

Since we're usually discussing problems here at element14, it's easy to get the impression that there are nothing but problems chez RasPi.  In fact, most of the discourse there is technical and helpful.  Today I'd like to compliment jamesh for his polite response to a difficult first poster in this RasPi thread.  RasPi gets a lot of this sort of nonsense so I admire jamesh's restraint.