Re: [Staffslug] Laugh
Hi Stuart,
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:04:59PM +0000, stuart bell wrote:
On 06/02/2008, Kevanf1 <kevanf1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Ooh it's a good job you didn't post that to another local LUG. You'd
> have had somebody tearing you apart fro laughing at another OS. I did
> this the other week (different subject matter but it was a downfall in
> Windows stuff) and certain members of that 'other' LUG thought it
> would be funny to try tearing me apart and flaming me. I didn't stand
> for it and fought back....pathetic idiots! Yes, I meant that, I was
> very angry at the flaming I got.
Kev,
How did it cause such a fuss if you were simply reporting an XP
irregularity? The purpose of such comments is to help others, perhaps
to save them from a potential problem.
What Kevan isn't saying is that the fuss was caused because he
repeated some rumour that he heard about the behaviour of some
Windows software, using words like "woe" and "secret", without
making any effort to verify what he was saying.
When he was quite reasonably called on it and shown that what he
said was incorrect, instead of just admitting the mistake, he went
off the deep end and got upset about it.
Obviously he has not yet calmed down and feels the need to
misrepresent again, since as far as I am aware no one was having a
go at him for "laughing at another OS" but instead correcting
misleading information. I don't think that anyone thought it would
be "funny" to do this either.
This free flow of information is what makes these lists such a
wonderful medium for education and enlightenment, I would never
hesitate to pass on an observation concerning W*n or any other OS.
As to flaming and personal attacks - well what can one say. That is
totally unnecessary behaviour in any part of life.
I didnt see any flaming or personal attacks in the thread that Kevan
is talking about. He was simply called on passing along incorrect
information in a sensationalist manner, and if it got at all heated
that was because Kevan was unable to see the problem with what he
was doing.
The list was sblug and the thread was about some behaviour of BBC's
iplayer. Unfortunately the list archive is private, so only list
members will be able to go back and look for themselves.
Cheers,
Andy
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