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AbstroNot wrote: Noothgrush wrote: Be more specific, what don't you get?

If you have a problem with me I'd appreciate it if you just came out an said it. If I'm causing anyone problems I'd prefer to know about it, but I get why you're not immediately naming names. No, it's not you. I just don't get that some of the admins prefer to move towards new users and deal with them in inappropriate ways. Instead of trying to help them out in some ways, they disapprove whatever the new user has to say. It causes me some greif because I personally want to look at the best in people, instead of what some of these people are doing here. Granted, sometimes the way new users are dealt with can be a bit harsh. It contributes certainly to that hostile environment I was talking about in another thread. But you also have to understand how exasperating it is when we get probably 15 or more new users a day who don't read the rules, who post inane blogicles, and are in general just plain stupid.

Of course, we could deal with them in a far more positive way sometimes, but we're all just people. I'm guilty of it, especially in regards to blogs, and you're right it's counterproductive when we're trying to build a community here.

More often than not, we do try to help people. Linking them to the rules, blogs, forums, etc. It's typically after repeated attempts that new users get harsh treatment. I mean, I was just looking at a new user that came off a ban, made an idiotic half-coherent blog where they profusely apologized (they misspelled "sorry" so badly it had to have been deliberate) and then they went to the forums and revived 2 threads that haven't been active for a month or more.