On 3/16/06, Rigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chad? Do you want people to not like you?
No - I want them to try reading the thread before telling me something *I ALREADY SAID* in the thread, and telling me like I didn't know. I want people to not talk down to me like I'm an idiot - when they are the clueless ones. I want people to READ. This is email - we are confined to text and stupid emoticons - if you are going to participate in this form of communication you HAVE TO F'ING READ. If you aren't going to read - then don't reply. This is the third time I've had to explain a very simple concept in this same thread - and I'm just repeating myself. because people refuse to read my whole email It's maddening! They just look at part of the email and hit reply - or they just read one email, out of the context of the thread (which, again, ended 5 damn days ago) and decide they need to "inform" me of something I already said in the thread - like it's news to me. Ignorance I can tolerate. Idiocy I hate. Sam has been on mailing lists longer than I have. He knows how they work. He knows that you have to follow the thread to understand what someone is saying. He also knows that if a thread has been dead for almost a week - there's no need to reply. And yet - he decides to jump in there and basically call me an idiot because I "didn't know" something (Google employs OOo coders) that I mentioned directly eariler in the thread. And I quote: " OpenOffice.org (a downloadable office suite - one that Google already supports with programmers". If Sam had bothered to read the thread - he'd know that. In fact, he probably *did* read the thread - *and* knew I said that - but since I marginallized his pet project of ODF - he wanted to piss me off - which he did. You don't like people > telling you what to do, I'm sure they don't like you telling them what > to do. Civillity is a virtue. So is informing yourself to the facts before making an ass of yourself by talking down to people and telling them things they already know. So is reading the thread before replying to it. If you don't want to be berrated, > perahaps you should not barrate others, or is this simply a mood you > go through occasionally? > It's a mood I get into when people treat me like an idiot and tell me things I already know - and have, in fact, stated clearly in the same thread that they are lately replying to. -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ http://www.whatisopenoffice.org/ Because everyone loves free software! http://www.chadwsmith.com/ Because, admit it, you've got nothing better to do right now...
