On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 09:07 -0500, Regina Obe wrote: > > If the attacker goes public, we point people at the exchange that happened > > where Tom has presumably already discussed the reasons that the > > patch/feature/&c isn't being accepted. > > If someone wanted to out someone, they would study them carefully. They > would find Tom's buttons and push them. > They will show proof of Tom saying fuck you trans thing (probably something > worse) and all that and it would be a bad reflection on Tom and our > community. > It's because they don't have a Coc that Tom is such a jerk. They let the > power get to his head. > They would have proof is my point in an email trail. > > Luckily I think Tom doesn't have many visible buttons to push, but others in > our community do. > Anyrate I think it's looking more like a Coc will hurt us more than do us > good. This is beginning to feel too much like Highschool Lincoln-douglass > debating which I never enjoyed. > I just want to get back to programming something useful. >
Amen. > > > I don't think I understand your point. So I get 100 friends to come here > > and ask for Tom to be outed, we ask for the reason and when they don't > > produce a valid one, nothing happens because none of us have any power. > They will ask, they'll point at a random link. Like this one - > https://twitter.com/krainboltgreene/status/611569515315507200 > > You'll be too lazy to read it and assume they read it and they are right. > Tom will be persecuted for some link everyone was too lazy to read. > News of Tom's jerkiness would spread across the internet like a virus. > The jerk think would be echoed by everyone until everyone believes it and > takes it to heart. "Tom is a big jerk. How can the PostgreSQL project allow > such a jerk to be running the show." > Tom will feel bad and think - "No good deed goes unpunished", he'll step down. > > THE END > > > Thanks, > Regina > In that vein..Being the insensitive MF that I am, I don't care what Tom says. Toms value (in the list) is his commitment to the project and (for me) the last word on most topics..even if he is a liberal sob. Feel the love, Bret Stern > >
