Should (How should) Snap! be more popular, etc

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Eh?

I don't think that's objectionable. It wasn't calling someone names, it was just expressing astonishment. If it had something else instead of "fudge" (e.g., "hot chocolate" :~) ) then maybe.

But, without using any specific bad words, some of the comments in this conversation do verge on calling people names:

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that is childish behaviour.
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Please everyone try to discuss the issues, not the personalities.

No, sorry.

Look:

  1. We know that we need more ways for users to communicate.

  2. Other things are higher priority right now, so it's not going to happen soon, but it is going to happen.

  3. We are nervous about it because (a) we don't have staff time for moderation, and (b) we think that social media are not just stupid but evil, that the whole business of likes and follows and all that is deliberately designed to make people think emotionally rather than rationally so that they'll click more links and sell advertising. But see point 1 above.

  4. Why isn't Snap! more popular? Just as we don't want you to engage in popularity contests, we don't want to, ourselves, either. We'll never be anywhere near as popular as Scratch because, to a first approximation, every primary school on Earth teaches Scratch, and also because programming computers isn't most kids' main hobby interest, and Scratch meets their needs, and that's fine. I think the Snap! community may be a little intimidating because everyone wants to talk about λ calculus (yay!) or about JavaScript (boo!).

  5. There's nothing terrible about the occasional offtopic remark. (I'm not talking about deliberate hijacking of a thread to turn it into a different thread. That's kind of nasty.) I've been known to make offtopic remarks myself, even. 0:~) But if we all do that on every thread, it becomes impossible to read the actual on-topic stuff. That's why it has to be against the rules. I do think stuff like

(not consecutive) doesn't add that much to the discussion, compared to how much scroll space it takes up.
6. Assume good faith.