"Welcome to the Moodle community forums... Get support from the community, share ideas and meet others ..."
... and the reality : "But, cluttering up the UI with 100s of stupid options does not make a good, usable system. Please can we focus on actual needs, like the Hebrew numbering thing."
Well, I was totally focused on the question of the Hebrew list labels and I suggested to add the possibility for the user to define his/her own string, whether the Hebrew alphabet or whatever alphabet or list labels that the user may want to use. Maybe my suggestion was not very useful, maybe it would have been just a poor workaround. Although I don't think that it was that bad compared to other comments in the conversation.
BUT IN NO CASE, IT IS ACCEPTABLE TO GET BULLIED OUT OF A CONVERSATION... LO AND BEHOLD BY THE MODERATOR HIMSELF, AND HAVE THE SUGGESTION QUALIFIED AS A "STUPID OPTION".
More, I certainly did not suggest "100s" of options. SO, WHOSE OPTIONS ARE THE OTHER "100s OF STUPID OPTIONS"?
How derailed does the conversation have to get before the moderator understand that he should work on his politeness?
Tim, As a moderator, you should take back the word "studid" and if you have enough guts, you should also apologize to me and others whose suggestions you qualify as "stupid options".
If you want to have "... an open, collaborative effort ...", do not discourage people like me and others from contributing. That is, unless you are so comfortable having a forum ran by a few unconnected-from-new-users, self-congratulating, narrow-minded and unmannered persons.
Maybe I am being stupid with this post, but I am too sick and tired of bullies to put up with them.