thank you for posting this, i was struggling whether i should post something like this. i am just marking most threads as 'read' now because i can't follow and the attitudes make me not want to follow.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Raffaele Fragapane < [email protected]> wrote: > One simple post or comment I have no issues with, nor I think one has to > have a pedigree to post here, but when literally 80% of one's posts are > outbursts of insults and whining post EOL, and of that the absolute > totality is purely destructive and uninformed, I take issue with it, > because it ruins the list as a resource for me and many others who are > being silent about it and simply abandoned discussion, or even unsubscribed. > > This place has been a significant part of the professional network many of > us have built over much longer than just the last few weeks of turmoil, and > if AD is solely to be blamed for upsetting people with a hamfisted and > mismanaged move, the people have to take responsibility for making the > community itself poisonous and useless to others, like me, who would still > like to use it for something more useful than posting amateurish rants or > personal insults to valuable sources of information. > > Some BS was OK for a while. Some BS mixed with useful comments and > initiatives is OK pretty much all the time with me. All BS all the time > makes you worse than AD itself. > > As I said, that's my piece, I was aware when I wrote it many would have > disagreed, but I still decided to post it. > >
