It wasn't your comments, or canci's for that matter that yanked my chain. It was this gem:Hallvor wrote: ↑2023-02-01 09:10canci and myself are, despite having "section moderator" under our handle/name, just regular users outside our domain, so there is no policing involved at all. donald is the only one in this thread with any power, and I don't see him telling you what you can and can't do.
From where I'm sitting, "just here to agitate [how embarrassing]" comes across as a rather passive-aggressive euphemism for "he's just trolling", an activity no more present here than it is in the mentioned "free hardware" (and/or split discussion) thread.
From what I can see, what really occurred was a bunch of people raising quite rational concerns around the (IMO gratuitously onerous given the context) proposed rules for donors, and donald continuing to push the clearly unpopular idea that people giving gear away should cover any incidental costs.
Why that needed to be dragged over here in the first place I don't know, you'll have to ask him.
As for tone police, defending a comment like that with "but slightly douchy tone" is, well, a bit of a stretch IMO. TBH I'm probably just sensitised to such from... earlier interactions with a certain admin.
For the rest, I agree. Had accusations of "agitating" been left out, I likely wouldn't even be here, because I don't have any better ideas on how to get the data you're after.
Well I sure can't make people participate in a poll if they don't want to, and I can't turn the general observation that an awful lot of people seem to prefer step-by-step guides on random blogs over reading the official documentation into a statistically significant survey either. That's just my impression, but if I were to hazard a guess at which way this could have gone with enough participants, that would be it.
Unfortunately, making proverbial horses drink remains as challenging as it ever was. All I can offer is how I learned, and that was primarily this very forum, the debian wiki, offline manual pages, and the contents of /usr/share/doc.