On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 04:22:03PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > BTW, the moderator(s) seem to confuse bluntness with rudeness and/or > > combatitiveness. For my part, I appreciate bluntness. > > > > Bluntness is often used as a excuse by people who are rude. It is easy > enough to see the difference. "You are wrong" is blunt but is helpful to > suggest how it can be improved. "You are an idiot" is rude and not really > justified in this list even if you good technical expertise and it is > against Fedora's code of conduct. I will leave it as an exercise to reader > to figure out which side they stand on.
The problem, of course, being that idiots seldom appreciate their idiocy unless it's pointed out to them.......bluntly. I contend that, as has been previously stated in another post, this matter was poorly, clumsily handled. -- Bob Holtzman Your mail is being read by tight lipped NSA agents who fail to see humor in Doctor Strangelove Key ID 8D549279
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