Question for Richard Heathfield

[Everyman]

Why are you so arrogant?

Just wondering.

 

[Phil Carmody]

Why are you so arrogant?

Just wondering.

Posting through an anonymiser, I see. Why are you such a coward?
Do you have nothing to say that you're willing to be associated
with? There's no need to answer that, we already know.

Phil

 

[Antoninus Twink]

Why are you so arrogant?

Why is the sky blue? Why do birds fly? Why do dogs bark?

Arrogance is Heathfield's essential nature.

 

[Richard]

He isn't.

However at least he's brave enough to post under his own name and
doesn't have to hide behind an anonymiser.

Oh dear me. How sad.

 

[Kenny McCormack]

Arrogance is where you overestimate your own abilities. Can you find an
example of Richard Heathfield doing this?

Yes. Thousands. Well documented by Han from China.
Just google for posts by him.

You are very welcome.

 

[Kenny McCormack]

(Incidentally I probably can't post again for another week).

They only let you on the computers for an hour each Sunday, down at the home?

 

[Keith Thompson]

He isn't.

However at least he's brave enough to post under his own name and
doesn't have to hide behind an anonymiser.

Please don't feed the troll.

 

[Old Wolf]

I can't trawl through thousands of posts.

Well, Richard Heathfield believes that nobody
should post to this group until they have
trawled through at least 2,500 posts. What do
you make of that?

ref: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/msg/29fa6458065f546c

 

[Kenny McCormack]

It's self-imposed.

I've banned myself from Usenet because my PhD is coming up this year, and an
entire chapter needs to be written.
However I still use the computer I have at my parents' house, which I visit
each Sunday. I give myself a break then.

I see. So I wasn't that far off...

 

[jfbode1029]

Why are you so arrogant?

Just wondering.

Okay. That's it. I've had it with this nonsense. Did we all
suddenly turn 12 years old or something? Are we simply unable to
behave like rational adults anymore?

KNOCK IT OFF. You have problems with Heathfield or Chuck Falconer or
me or anyone else, then respond in the relevant thread or take to
email, but fucking *enough* with the "here's why so-and-so sucks"
threads.

The September That Never Ended was bad enough, but this is getting
intolerable. Go create an alt.flame.* group to vent your spleens if
you must, but for ****'s sake quit spamming the group with your
personal issues.

*Jesus*.

 

[Keith Thompson]

Okay. That's it. I've had it with this nonsense. Did we all
suddenly turn 12 years old or something? Are we simply unable to
behave like rational adults anymore?

[...]

The trolls know exactly what they're doing. Asking them to stop
has not worked in the past, and is unlikely to work in the future.
Given the open nature of Usenet, there's no real way to force them
to stop.

The best thing we can do is ignore them. A killfile is a good
way to do this. Responding to them only seems to encourage them.
I understand (and share) your frustration, but berating them really
doesn't help.

In short, please don't feed the trolls.

(Some of the trolls will probably post followups claiming that
they've won some kind of victory because I've mentioned them.
They pretend not to understand that they're not winning anything;
I'm just not playing their game. When you make up your own
rules as you go along, you can claim whatever meaningless victories
you like.)

 

[Old Wolf]

I think you might want to learn to read. I quote from the article you
referenced:

"(Note that this advice is not of my own making. It has been kicking
around Usenet much longer than I have.) "

Well, he endorses the advice and administered
it to somebody else; it doesn't matter
if he authored it or not. BTW, it is actually
2,500 threads in the last 6 months, heaven
knows how many actual posts there were!