Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 21:15:54 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: politeness Message-ID: <50956.970600554@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Oct 2000 13:01:50 MDT." <4.3.2.7.2.20001003123112.04c6ee80@localhost>
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In message <4.3.2.7.2.20001003123112.04c6ee80@localhost>, Brett Glass writes: >Moved to -chat. > >At 10:48 AM 10/3/2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >>In your particular case: If you want to avoid being banned and >>filtered: Yes, it means that. > >To demand that someone with whom you do not agree be silenced is >a sign of poor leadership qualities and suggests that you should >not be in a leadership position. *I* don't demand that you be silenced, I just ignore twits like you. Let me try to explain this very slowly again: An ever increasing number of people *do* ask for you to be banned and/or filtered. At some point they reach critical mass, then my position, will change from: "Can't you guys just ignore him ?" to: "OK, we can't have Brett destroying the fabric of the project". Or to put it another way: 1. You, Brett, are pissing people off. 2. Pissed off people demand you be banned/filtered. 3. When enough pissed off people demand that, it will happen. Or yet another way: Unless you change your style radically, at some point in the not too distant future you will have collected sufficient box-tops to be run off the project in tar & feathers. Now, there, I have tried to cut this fact out in various pieces of cardboard, plywood and other available pædagogical media, I can't say it more clearly, if you don't understand it now, it's not my fault. If you finally figured out what is being said here, I would expect it to be enough to start introspective thought processes in you, (but so far I se absolutely no signs of such activity). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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