Are those that dislike Unity being treated unfairly?

[kansasnoob]

The title says it all. I've been dedicated to Ubuntu since Gutsy, and I've been iso-testing for well over three years. Not to "toot my own horn" but I have reported, and helped fix, a few serious bugs.

I've recently been commenting here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/search.php?searchid=81727470

And it appears to me that a thread can survive quite a long time w/o participation from the OP if it has a "pro-Unity" title.

OTOH I started this thread in the "water cooler" asking, "What can you do with Unity or Gnome Shell that I can't do with Classic Gnome?"

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1763645

What was wrong with asking that question?

I was shut down in only a few hours :(

IMHO the mods, devs, and all users need to accept the fact that not everyone loves Unity/Gnome-Shell/Gnome3 and try to be accommodating regarding the DE options in Ubuntu rather than alienating those who dislike the newest changes :D

Do we want to be as inclusive as when I found Ubuntu or do we want to be exclusive?

I prefer being inclusive. While I now prefer Lubuntu there is no need to convince everyone that it's "the best", nor will Unity be "the best" for everyone, but it's particularly sad if we choose to shut down all negative comments about Unity and Gnome3.

I'd like to think the community is better and stronger than that :D

[Tibuda]

http://ubuntuforums.org/search.php?searchid=81727470


where?

[3Miro]

I don't think the Unity thread was closed because of you, it seems to me that it was closed because of general trolling.

There aren't many "love Unity" threads out there, while there are tons of "hate Unity" ones. I definitely don't think there is anything new to be discussed on why the change occurred and why is Unity this way as opposed to that way. Unity is what it is.

You can post suggestions how to improve it, but I guess that falls in the "love Unity" category.

If you don't like Unity, the Classic Gnome and Gnome-shell are included in the repositories for 11.10.

[user1397]

Well all I'll say is that although sometimes mods might be closing anti-unity threads a bit too early, the overwhelming amount of unity threads are negative and so the mods are sick of them, hence they put a lot of them in recurring or simply lock them.

Your specific thread, however, seemed like it wasn't a typical "I hate unity" thread and probably shouldn't have been closed imho.

[dmizer]

If you feel that the staff is not handling things properly, the appropriate course of action is to bring the matter before the forum council in the Resolution Center (http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=123).

Thank you.