OK what about sports? CLUG is like an informal (unlike more formal things like work, conferences etc that you have mentioned) gathering of people with a common interest. Kinda like a sports club. Now if your acting like an idiot on the sports field, you are in no certain terms told that by fans, teammates, opponents, coaches, captains, referees even!
Its not a polictically correct thing, but a reality. I think that poster recently wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes in another setting!! Its a matter of degrees as far as I'm concerned. I've been on this list mostly lurking for 6-8 months now, and it was the absolute only occasion where he pushed me over my limits of patience. Everything else has been great! cheers Daryn On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 01:06:46PM +1300, Derek Smithies wrote: > Hi, > I am being obnoxious here, and maybe someone will flame me :-). > However, I am forcing the point, and trying to provoke someone > into writing a reasoned logical explanation why it is ok to > publically flame > > Now, Steve has expressed an opinion that has been repeated elsewhere. > This opinion is contradictory. > It is ok to flame idiots, but not ok to flame newbies. > > What do you do with idiot newbies? Publically flame them? Or not? > > The answer is to correct them, but nicely. Public idiots are definately > corrected, publically, but they are definately corrected in a socially > mature fashion. > Because someone is yelling and screaming publically, do we descend to > their level, and yell/scream at them to shutup? Nope. > > Derek. > >
