Author: odell hall
Date: 17:28:42 11/14/99
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On November 14, 1999 at 20:10:19, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >I recall something simular happened to me, when I questioned why people were >rountinely misspelling Michael Rohde's name, especially as he is a well known >IGM, and involved in the 1st match against Rebel Century. I got insulted by a >number of poster's in the thread, who also totally ignored my inquiry; why >misspell a name that you see all the time? At 1st I wanted to quit, but upon >reflection I decided that there is too much 'political correctness' in the world >anyway, and why should I care if Mike's name is always misspelled, and also, I >decided I was thick-skinned enough, so I would continue to post in the future. >The other thing is that your original post, hard to understand or not, was >definately extremely provacutive enough to cause hundreds of post of feed-back. >So let me be the first to nominate it as the, 'Best of the month', maybe even >the whole year' You really want to quit after coming up with such a brilliant >post? > >Larry T. > > Well I don't want to come off as having a persecution complex, but it seems of late everything I write is severely critized, no matter how well intentioned. Yet you never see me writing anything derrogatory about someoneelse's post. My use of the word "criminal" in my last post, was a attempt to express my frustration with not being able to purhcase ferret and tiger, I thought people would have enough understanding to see that in the context of the thread it was not to be taken literally. But for the life of me I cant see how anyone could misunderstand my post to mean that I think programmers should give away their programs. What I think has happened is that some people read the title to my post without reading the body. Certainly I can't see why wondering why someone doesn't sell a program that they could make money off of is considered a dumb or insane question. >On November 14, 1999 at 19:58:53, odel hall wrote: > >>On November 14, 1999 at 19:31:16, Pete Galati wrote: >> >>>On November 14, 1999 at 19:15:37, Lanny DiBartolomeo wrote: >>> >>>>I am totally amazed at the amount of people who misunderstood this post, >>>> He was not talking about giving it away, or else "don't they want to make >>>>money" and "I thought programers were money movitated" would not've be brought >>>>up. >>>> Now the thread got carried away with people insulting and saying in more ways >>>>than one it was a dumb post, He tries to explain this and now it builds to a >>>>point were of course he is going to be pissed and reply to a response indicating >>>>his post as stupid, now here comes the we want moderation. Well if the post was >>>>read correctly to begin with it wouldnt have gotten to this point, >>>>Yes his wording was too strong "almost criminal" and he knew it was so he said >>>>"mabey this is too strong" but the spirit of the post says (I want to buy the >>>>strong chessprograms which are not for sale.)Odell if i am wrong then please >>>>tell me , this is what I read. >>>> please people re-read the post taking out the almost criminal and want to >>>>control there program. I dont want to see this end with someone else that has >>>>good posts getting kicked. >>> >>>However it was taken by everyone, he sparked a great deal of discusion, I think >>>that is good even if he was missunderstood, it should be considered a good post >>>if nothing else, because everyone had something to say, so I don't see a big >>>problem. >>> >>>Pete >> >> >> The problem is I don't enjoy being called insane and stupid, especially when >>it's from people who do not take the time to read and understand what I wrote. >>Which I think was incredibly clear. As I mention money twice in the first >>paragraph and the last. The real point though is even if my post was stupid, no >>one has the right to say so, Such post should have been immidiatley rebuked by >>the moderators. This did not happen!! If the moderators do not condemn such >>statements than they are in effect supporting them.
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