Re: Re: Opinions / Votes Needed

Skip Evans schreef: > Wow, Tony, do you think in the future you could try to express yourself > with just a bit more civility and in a less condescending tone? going on past experience ... I doubt it. > Nathan expressed some thoughts he had, politely, and when out of his way > to come across in a non-critical and non-confrontational manner. Yeah, Nate's one of the good guys ... even though his idea's suck ;-) > Tony Marston wrote: >> Absolute rubbish! > > There's just no need to insult other list members like this. You haven't been doing this very long have you? :-P > Frankly, it's this kind of treatment that make these lists less > productive than they could be. It intimidates less experienced > programmers from asking good questions, lest they get treated the way > Nathan was. And isn't helping out less experienced coders one of the > reasons this list exists? There's me thinking it was for comic relief and the occasional pissing contest. must make a mental note of the above. > And it also makes others less inclined to participate, or drop off the > list entirely. sometimes that's a good thing ... booing Crayon off stage was a community service if you ask me. > It's NOT just so we can blast each other and show off our highly > dubiously assumed superiority. If I was Robbert Cummings I'd nail you on your grammar at this point, I don't want to steal his thunder so I won't. > With all the frustrations we put up with in our daily lives, I would > hope a list like this, especially since we are among colleagues, could > be a place we could at least cautiously expect to be treated with respect. Paris Hilton .... because it's everything to do with hope and just as likely to happen. PS - nothing serious about this mail, except maybe the first line, judge for youself :-)