*On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Steven Caron <car...@gmail.com <car...@gmail.com>> wrote:* > > *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.* >
Yeah, my thoughts exactly... -M -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [ http://www.chatterjee.de ] [ https://vimeo.com/chatterjee ] On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Raffaele Fragapane < > raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> 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. >> >>