User blog:13th madman/Being More Friendly.

Quite a few of you will have seen Ferno's blog one the new marine rules by now. You may also be aware that I disagreed with one of the new rules for personal reasons. Between me misunderstanding Ferno, and Ferno misunderstanding my subsequent response, things kinda got a bit tense, but we eventually managed to explain what we both meant, and sort things out. We concluded that making it compulsary to compliment a person's work wasn't the right way to go about this, so that rule has been redacted.

That said, I agreed with Ferno's reasons for making the rule, and when he explained his motives properly, I became aware we have quite a serious problem here.

As marines, we're often dropping in on pages to try and correct slight problems that break the rules, or issues that need changing, and if we're in a rush it's almost a natural tendency just to list things that need changing, come down like a tonne of bricks, and demand that the changes are made promptly, possibly on pain of deletion otherwise. Nearly all of us have ended up being guilty of this, myself included. And as Ferno rightly pointed out, that's being pretty unfriendly, and it comes across as outright hostile to new guys who don't know us that well yet.

So, the bottom line I'm trying to bring up is, even though it's remaining none-compulsary, try to take a more friendly and polite approach to pages, and if you see something you liked about a page, be sure to mention that you liked it as well. as a wiki, we should be welcoming, and shooting down pages instantly without any kind words is definately not the way to go about it. Thanks for your time.