Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?
On Thursday 25 August 2005 11:28 pm, Wulfy wrote:
> Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> >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.
>
> When this vision is shared openly, joyfully and with respect to all, it
> is a beautiful thing. But when it's shared with snide remarks, put
> downs and arrogance, how is it different from any other Big Brother
> bullying? Alienating the people you are trying to help will not make
> people understand.
True guides don't need to share with snide remarks. As I said to someone else
in an off-list reply:
Most, if not all of the people I'm referring to -- the ones that seem to love
to patronize others who aren't using the same "uber-geek" programs and
systems they are (I guess that makes them feel superior or something), are
not the creators. It is merely those who want to piss on the local trees to
say to everyone else, "Hey, I'm an uber-alpha-geek, look at me with awe. Be
as impressed with me as I am with myself."
The forum then, in a discussion like this, becomes nothing more than a pissing
contest with some trying to prove their superiority by throwing at the rest
of us the most excrement.
Hal
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