On May 18, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Joshua Bailey wrote:
I don't mean to start off here on a bad note, but I get irritated because on the forums someone asks a simple question, someone answers, the devs get angry because they feel someone overstepped their authority, even thought the devs tend to give a terse answer with no explanation. The newbie scared of asking anything else about the project because folks get so angry with one another, and figures it's not worth the trouble of getting involved.
I think sometime in the future the community section of the website will be greatly improved and transformed into a whole ReactOS Community Portal, thus, hopefully, eliminating such problems. Also I recently explained my idea about a so-called automated "scoring" or "points" systems (to a few people only, since it's just a concept now), so that if someone is providing a good contribution (any way: testing, bug reporting, patches, commits, wiki articles, translations), it's going to be reflected in his "score", and such person would be treated differently and with respect everywhere throughout the website.
With the best regards, Aleksey Bragin.