(you can't call something a framework unless you're Hal? WTF?), it's
not vulgar, nor all that offensive.
The person's post also does nothing to lend themselves creedence. I
mean, "Thos who can't do..."? Those who can't contribute complain, maybe.
Anyway, it's really up to you. If this is something you don't want
there, I don't feel like it would be necessarily wrong to delete it. I
just wouldn't do it myself.
--BenD
S. Isaac Dealey wrote:
> I want some advice here, 'cause... I'm ignorant. :)
>
> I got the first hostile post on my blog this morning, and I'd like
> opinions from the community as to whether or not I should remove it.
> For now I've responded with another comment -- not that I necessarily
> needed to, but I was there. :)
>
> The blog entry is here:
>
> http://www.turnkey.to/ontap/docs/blog.cfm?netaction=view&blogdate=2003
> <http://www.turnkey.to/ontap/docs/blog.cfm?netaction=view&blogdate=2003>
> -09-28
>
> Sorry for the line wrap.
>
> In addition to anonymously posting hostile comments which seem to
> highlight the fact that they're unaware of what they're talking about,
> they also misspelled "those" ... heh ...
>
> My thought on the subject is that it's somewhat "ingenuine" (for lack
> of a better word) to delete the hostile post just because it was
> hostile. The phrase "keeping it real" comes to mind, but it's not an
> _expression_ I really use or ever have used, so I think it doesn't sound
> natural when I say it. :) (Anybody else here remember the scene from
> Signs where he says it doesn't sound natural when he curses?) Anyway
> -- so that's why I'm disinclined to remove it myself, but I'm second
> guessing myself, so I wanted some additional opinions.
>
> Personally, I think it's kinda cheap to post something hostile and to
> do it anonymously. I haven't got any hostility myself toward Hal or
> anyone else in the Fusebox community. That's not to say I've never
> posted anything negative or angry -- I get frustrated like everybody
> else, and I try to apologize when I realize that I've offended people.
> Obviously Fusebox isn't my prefered architecture, but I don't see
> anything wrong with that, and I think that as an instructor I could
> provide an unbiased curriculum even teaching both Fusebox and onTap,
> since I don't think there's a necessarily direct relationship between
> preference and understanding. In other words, I don't think I have to
> be ignorant of the merits of Fusebox to personally prefer something
> else. In all honesty, the two frameworks have very different strengths
> and weaknesses.
>
>
> s. isaac dealey 972-490-6624
>
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>
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>
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