On 9 September 2010 13:05, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Who trolls? Who attacks people? Who gets hostile? Who jumps on ideas? > Who calls people “stupid”? Someone who behaves like that must be socially > retarded. >
Do I smell an attempt at a troll? > Although it is entertaining to watch these people ruin their reputations in > front of hundreds of influential people worldwide. > <splort> hundreds? influential? worldwide? (apologies for all those questionmarks, to whomever was commenting on them t'other day > > > Yes, tech talk only please (but I hope Friday is still good for friendly > OTs). > > Tomorrow can't come too soon. > > > Greg > > > > -------- > > [cut] Instead of focusing on "argument styles", "how to troll correctly", > etc. How about we just stop attacking people on this mailing list and just > talk tech. This mailing list gets very hostile a lot of the time and I am > sick of it. A lot of ideas are just jumped on and the person posting gets > called stupid or discouraged from replying again. It isn't "sparking > interesting debate" or "being controversial", it is just causing a hostile > environment. > -- Meski "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
