Re: [OT] aggressiveness on our mailing lists.
On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Luk Claes wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Luk Claes wrote:
>>
>>> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Luk Claes wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Twisting people's words is unfortunately very normal behaviour for Manoj.
>>>> On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>>>>> Or he should post less and take the time to review what he
>>>>> writes... (including the pass where he's supposed to remove
>>>>> the unneeded agressivity)
>>>> This is hilarious. Two posts attacking the man -- ad hominem --
>>>> and these are the folks talking about being less aggressive.
>>> Twisting again are you?
>>
>> Only if you call quoting what you say twisting your words.
>
> You put it in a different context to match better what you wanted to
> bring across, I name that twisting, though you're still free to call
> that whatever you like.
Actually, the context was that someone said I twisted words (no
examples provided), and you respnded with that one liner (again, with
no substantiation)
>>>>> Charles Plessysy wrote:
>>>>> > Le Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:30:17PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
>>>>> >> While I do not approve of ad hominem attacks on the mailing
>>>>> >> list, I think that we can go over much to the other side: We
>>>>> >> should not be overly genteel about silly ideas.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > You twist people words and extrapolate to the silliest
>>>>> > interpretation, that you use as a pretext for adding insults to
>>>>> > your messages. I am sick of this, and unsubscribed from this
>>>>> > list.
>>>>>
>>>>> Twisting people's words is unfortunately very normal behaviour for
>>>>> Manoj.
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Luk
This is the full text of your message. Still seems an ad
hominem, so I think you have not made your case about twisting words.
>
>> This is a concept funny in itself.
>
> You ridiculously trying to defend yourself from twisting words while
> continuing to do it in more subtle ways, sure.
And your messages continue to be examples of unsubstantiated ad
hominem attacks, and, dare I say it, mis stating facts, based on this
thread alone.
manoj
--
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets
people's attention.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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