accentuate the positive
There has been a fair bit of discussion in the past in the Fedora community about how to deal with people who are projecting a community that some don't find welcoming enough or are sending out negative energy (especially to newcomers) or are just creating a community thats not pleasant to be working in. Many of these discussions have talked about things like:
- more rules to specifically ban or censure the behavior
- removal of privileged or access for people "blamed" for something.
- enforcing existing rules in a more rigid manner, banning people, moderating them or removing them from feeds.
- establishing some kind of community committee to do all of the above
- A negative reply to someone on a mailing list: Reply to the orig poster with the positive answer you would have liked to have seen.
- A poorly phrased, rude or condescending IRC reply to a question: Reply to the orig poster with the better, positive answer you would liked to have seen.
- A post on the planet feed you find offensive, in poor taste or disagree with: Post your own blog post with a positive reply. How could this have been better? Whats something related that's good?
- A bugzilla bug with a rude or curt or bad reply on it. Add a comment with the correct answer phrased in a nice positive way.