Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:26:24AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> One thing I've noticed about the Debian lists and attitudes: There is a group
> of people that are so absolutely sure they're right, that they are determined
> they will do things their way, and no other way, whether it's a "reply to",
> top posting, or ANYTHING. I've watched these people on lists, read their
> comments in interviews or articles, and the more I hear discussions like
> this, the more I think the only conclusion about such people is they are the
> very source of the geek stereotype: someone who is so focused on tech and on
> things that they have absolutely no understanding of people, human behavior,
> or, even more so, such a thing as programs that have intuitive behavior.
> Instead of dealing with the human side of things, they prefer to flaunt their
> IQ by showing off how they can run esoteric programs that comparatively few
> people need.
>
> The more I listen, especially to this thread, the more I am forced to conclude
> that is exactly what is going on: There are people who cannot abide being
> part of the human race, so they hide in computers. But when more come in,
> they hide in a minority OS. When more come in, they hide in the distros with
> the reputation of requiring a genius to understand. I'm sure a good many of
> them will, as more Debian based distros become popular, finally flee to BSD
> variants, all so they can spend all their time making silly rules about how
> to reply to something and what a good e-mail program and whether top posting
> is evil or not.
These people are the guides. If they thought as the rest of the guided
humans, the future would be blackly dark, as when under a
thunderstorm. They have created Debian by not listening to the
multitudes. The multitudes lack vision.
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