Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

[Jon Portnoy]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:21:12AM -0800, Allen Parker wrote:
> On 6/28/05, Ioannis Aslanidis <aslanidis@×××××.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> > Sorry for that, just tried to keep the discussion alive. I assume all
> <snip>
>
> It's alive enough without your constant/irrelevant bitching. You're a
> forum moderator which = staff, not developer. If you think that you're
> making an argument that actually makes any sense whatsoever, I invite
> you to click "expand all" in this thread and read some of your
> valuable "contributions." IMHO having anyone besides the "gentoo is
> for ricers" crowd able to view some of the things said in the forums
> at all is a PR nightmare. I'd rather NOT have my clients know that
> every 13 year old pimply faced boy on earth that is learning linux is
> using my distribution. If you prefer the forums, more power to you, I
> think it'd be a more efficient use of bandwidth and space to replace
> your beloved forums with a wiki (and it'd probably be easier for
> people to navigate as well.)

What was that about irrelevant bitching again?

>
> The issue isn't that some people do or do not like forums in general,
> the gentoo forums, or having forum moderators/admins. My current issue
> is that you, by playing devil's advocate, Ioannis, are doing nothing
> other than trolling. In the past, behaviors such as yours... have been
> described by Daniel Robbins as being a "freak" (see his articles on
> making your own distro on ibm.com).

I think before posting you should perhaps take a step back and think: 
"Am I making myself look like a bigger asshat than the other guy?"

Please try to refrain from posting any more stupid flames to what is 
supposed to be a productive development list. This is not USENET.

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