On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 06:24:32PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Say Dude, > > > > I have a question (well, two actually) > > > > My name is Alan and I've been subscribed on this list for 7 years. > > > > What's your name, and how long have you been around? > > > > Just trying to establish your place in the pecking order in this here > > meritocracy. > > Seniority != meritocracy. And I don't know how much "meritocratic" > this list could be, since it is a users lists. The most "merit" a > member of this list can get is to give technically acurate, > constructive, and polite help for those users asking for it. > > IMO, the most active users of this lists usually fail in at least two > of those three, sometimes all of them. Unfortunately, I don't think I > have done better. I suscribed to this lists more than eight years ago; > I stopped asking for help here just a few months later. Which is > easily explained by people like you that believe that "being around" > longer somehow gives more "merit" and that there is a "pecking order". > > I was under the impression that, being all of us Gentoo users, we were > equals, although some of us know less about some things and some > others know more about some other things. Hence the smart, mature, and > polite exchange of ideas. I didn't know this was a pissing contest. > > This is a technical help list, related to the Gentoo Linux > distribution. Please, don't try to "pull rank" in here; you just look > bad, and at least I would laugh at the futility of it. Even more > considering I've been around longer: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@gentoo.org/msg35368.html > > Mmmh. Maybe I've been around even longer than 8 years. But, who the > <censored> cares? > > It's completely relevant. > > Regards. > -- > Canek Peláez Valdés > Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación > Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Other than your use of profanity, that post was worth making a sticky. Over the last 9 years I've subscribed/unsubscribed to a good number of lists. The first such abuse of others was A.O.L.S. -- yes, you just look bad, real bad. There is one LUG to which I'm subscribed, which is still good for support and edification of others. Since I (re)joined this list on Oct 21, it appears that only 3 messages have been of enough technical merit for saving. -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
