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On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:22:31AM -0400, Chrissy Fullam wrote: |
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> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:01:07AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> >> Sad to see one of the few remaining sane people leave. |
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> > I take this as a compliment to Bryan, but then still you are implying |
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> > that most of the people here are not sane. |
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> Amne, I do value your opinion but in this case, I respectfully |
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> disagree. |
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Fair enough. |
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> I do not see the harm in what Ciaran said above to be any greater than |
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> another person stating "sad to see one of the best/key/etc leave" - by |
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> your standards that would imply the rest of us are less than best. |
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That would be a positive statement because it would imply the other |
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people are normal, and Bryan was one of the best, which is a positive |
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statement. |
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Saying "one of the few remaining sane" people is a generally negative |
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statement that is judgemental towards the whole community, which is |
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what the the CoC/proctors are supposed to proactively discourage. |
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I think much worse things have been said on this list before, but |
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still statements like that are the basis of a poisonous |
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environment. All i was asking ciaranm is to be nice to people. |
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> Ciaran may be controversial at times, but I think we can see that he was |
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> paying Bryan a compliment. |
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I even admitted it was meant as a compliment, see above. |
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Hope that clears things up a bit. |
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cheers, |
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Wernfried |
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PS: If anyone feels tempted to reply to this, please take it to the |
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gentoo-proctors list instead of -dev, we're getting OT here. ;-) |
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Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne (at) gentoo.org |
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