Reacting to an admin's comment

[michael_henderson]

I don’t visit these forums much anymore, but I got a request to update the “slowstart” tutorial so I headed back. The article is locked, so I can’t update it, which isn’t a big deal.

I noticed a response on it that seems very much against the Hugo spirit. It looked like an admin was threatening to ban someone for not saying thank you very much on a response and for pointing out that Hugo’s documentation was good for experienced users but confusing to new users. It’s almost 5 years old, but it really bothers me.

The thing that drew me to Hugo in the first place was a Steve’s kindness towards new users.

[jmooring]

Please point me to the topic in question. Thank you.

[tyco]

I think he speaks of Alexandros comments down in the topic

Hugo 101: Slowstart for beginners

You can get involved trying to improve the Documentation. Pull Requests are welcome over here: And by the way Michael’s guide is missing a few of the newer features as I already said above. On a final note I do not see a thank you very much for pointing me to the .Site.RegularPages variable. If you are going to be posting here you need to be mindful of your language and be polite. If the above is beyond your ability I can always ban you from this forum. You can go vent elsewhere. But no…

[michael_henderson]

Yes, that is the comment.

[jmooring]

I agree.

The moderator’s response displayed poor word choice and an unwelcoming demeanor. It’s important to note that bep, the project lead, is the sole forum administrator with moderator management privileges. The individual in question is no longer a moderator and has not been for several years.

Other than bep, currently I am the only active moderator. While I acknowledge my own imperfections, I try very hard to rapidly provide helpful, creative, and accurate responses. I hope that the overall quality of my contributions compensates for any occasional missteps.

[tyco]

@jmooring

Other than bep, currently I am the only active moderator. While I acknowledge my own imperfections, I try very hard to rapidly provide helpful, creative, and accurate responses. I hope that the overall quality of my contributions compensates for any occasional missteps.

Personally, I think you are the best moderator this forum has ever heard! I agree with other sentiments below.

Great community management

Over a @zwbetz’es blog, you can read a short but poignant post about one of the people whose avatar you can see every day in the list of latest responses. I agree wholeheartedly and think more people should read this. Click the link! I also promise to hit the heart button more often when an answer is great. By the way, the received hearts stats over the past year show a much clearer picture than the in the post mentioned all-time stats

[davidsneighbour]

You know, having my notification pop up with mentioning a post from me in connection with the tone of the forum… that gave me a short heart murmur just now

I read a very interesting post from last century recently and trying to find it again, that details from a socio-cultural and psychological point of view, why developers sometimes seem curt, or short, or grumpy. I can’t find it right now, but it’s a must read… will point to it once I found it. Basically “don’t assume it’s personal, it’s more of not having the (mental, time) resources to adapt to every person we are talking to so that they are comfortable, because their comfort is not both our end goal”.

[iaeiou]

Hi there,

Hugo is a tool I use everyday, and there is an important point I would like to raise since a long time – but I fear to be misunderstood, as I’m no english speaker:

how to improve the perennity of the project, given the fact that only a few people have access to critical parts of the infrastructure?

I don’t like the name of this concept, but the ‘bus factor’ is relevant here IMHO

[tyco]

@iaeiou

how to improve the perennity of the project, given the fact that only a few people have access to critical parts of the infrastructure?

I don’t worry too much about that because Hugo is guaranteed to work in whatever version you have last in perpetuity without any problems…