* On 2002-02-12 at 06:57, Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> excited the electrons to say: > > I actually do care about comments that are constructive > criticism.
Follows some constructive criticism. > However, comments that are really nothing but Jeroen-bashing rants > (and I have seen a lot of those recently) are met with "oh well, I > know who is saying it, so I do not have to take either the post or > the poster seriously" (altough that will not stop me from commenting > on them). This is not a rant, and it is not Jeroen-bashing. It is personal observation, highly subjective and therefore far from absolute. Jeroen, when I made my remark about pompous polemic (not the exact phrase I used but close enough), I was not being constructive. I canna speak for anyone else here, and won't even try, but my visceral impressions of your behaviour are that: you answer questions with questions, you won't acknowledge being in the wrong, you won't admit the validity of any opinion differing from your own, you snipe just as much as anyone else I've seen here, and you handwave and put on an attitude of wounded innocence and claiming to be misunderstood when challenged on any of this. All obviously highly subjective, as I said. Now for the constructive part: Why would I get these impressions? Am I the only one getting these impressions? More to the point, are these the impressions you're trying to give? Do you care that this is how I'm interpreting your behaviour? Even more to the point: if they aren't and you do, what can be changed so they're no longer given? That's the criticism in its entirety. I'm not going to suggest any actions you might want to consider taking; that's entirely up to you. I'm posting this so that you might have an idea what I'm feeling and why I'm responding the way I do when/if I reply to you. What you do with the information -- which is meant solely constructively -- is your business. It really *is* meant constructively; I'm not subtle nor manipulative enough to perform character defamation under the guise of sweetness and light. (I try not to defame at all, but I'm less than perfect.) Oh, and BTW: I'm not basing *any* of my observations on the Israel/Palestine threads (which I didn't read), but almost exclusively on the JDG-admonition topic and its descendants. -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!"
