> -----Original Message----- > From: Pablo Sanchez [mailto:pa...@blueoakdb.com] > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 8:38 AM > To: vbox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [VBox-users] Is it time for a new co-admin? > > [ Comments below, in-line ] > > On 03/23/2013 09:17 AM, vbox-users wrote: > > > > I think this list is presently, and has always been as long as I > know, > > well behaved and constructive. > > > > ... because the admins don't let it devolve. > --
Pablo: "The above is `almost' causing me to put on my `admin hat' .... I like to think that people on the list can discuss what they want and those who are not interested, can simply ignore it." Note that the phrase "admin hat" was one that you yourself brought up and used about yourself. I did not coin the expression and pin it on you. The point of my later statement about your said "admin hat" was placed immediately within the context of, and right after the statement about, the subject of my thread being changed from a technical consideration of Windows XP, which is an on-topic point of relevance, but it then became changed to an argumentative one about licensing issues. Somebody else objected to this change of topic first, not me. I simply affirmed that I did not want it changed in my thread to detract from the original technical topic. The context of my statement was apparently overlooked. My subsequent statement about your "admin hat" was then taken by you as a personal attack, and you responded negatively. Even more, you then appear to have implied that I was suggesting that you were not fit as an admin and ought to step aside, but I did not state anything to this effect. And it was not my intention that you do so. Rather, my point was this: You said people are free to talk about whatever arises related to Vbox. I said only that this is not true when you suddenly decide that you don't want to hear any more about something or when you feel like it, and that you have done that more often than you were acknowledging. Right then at that very moment in fact you were exercising your prerogative. You then said that my observation was a personal attack on you and that I was bashing you. Nowhere was I doing so from what I could see. I was not calling you names or slandering you. However, you responded emotionally and subjectively once again, and this is related to my point. My sole point concerning what you said. Quickly you then decide you would kick me out of the group and ban me from participation. This is utterly unfair and unwarranted. You also decided to start, once again, an off-topic discussion using the same thread, despite your claims otherwise. When the obviously excessive turn of events were brought up to you by another admin, the founder no less, you once again responded emotionally and told him that you were quitting your duties promptly. You even started to have other people voting one way or another about this befuddled issue, which is entirely irrelevant to VBox technical issues. Furthermore, you have continued to make mean statements about "relishing in banning me from the list" and about "/dev/null" me afterwards. All the while I remained quiet publicly from responding to your offenses toward me. Therefore, it does not appear to me that I am to blame for any of the excess or wrongdoing you are now seeing in the group. I would argue that you seem to be responsible for it, and you won't accept responsibility for the distractions. In fact you seem to be now contributing to the devolution of this whole episode. If I had thought for a minute that my apparently honest statement, intended not in malice but in honesty, would have led to such foolishness and distraction, I would have not said it. I regret that you have been allowed to continue this, and I apologize to the group for my part in this unfortunate distraction. I meant to speak only honestly, not maliciously or otherwise. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
