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TaoyuanSteve
Joined: 05 Feb 2003
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Location: Taoyuan
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 Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:08 am Post subject: AKATDN Love-in |
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| Those of us who've been reading these forums a while know that, every once in a while, an obnoxious sort comes along. He hijacks entire threads with his nonsense. He posts rude and senseless comments and is direspectful of the forum's rules and purpose. When I first joined this forum, it was a user calling himself "trinity." Then, there was a certain Jason_Seeburn. Now, it seems, the torch has been passed. We have a new village you know what. So, until he gets posting here out of his system, we might as well have some fun. |
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logician
Joined: 15 Jan 2004
Posts: 70
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:40 pm Post subject: Re: AKATDN Love-in |
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| TaoyuanSteve wrote: |
| Those of us who've been reading these forums a while know that, every once in a while, an obnoxious sort comes along. He hijacks entire threads with his nonsense. He posts rude and senseless comments and is direspectful of the forum's rules and purpose. When I first joined this forum, it was a user calling himself "trinity." Then, there was a certain Jason_Seeburn. Now, it seems, the torch has been passed. We have a new village you know what. So, until he gets posting here out of his system, we might as well have some fun. |
Personally, I think it's very hard to be charming in an online forum. I hit and run a lot of boards because I'm trying to post and I end up being obnoxious. So I have a lot of sympathy for people who are unpopular in online posting.
In the dark old days of Usenet, people used to have "killfiles." In the relatively slick, PHP-based boards of 2004, there seem to be no killfiles. If they existed, everyone who didn't want to read him could killfile him and there would be an end to it.
Now I suppose someone will point me to a FAQ that says that killfiles do exist, and I'll have to eat crow. Hmm. I've checked the FAQs, but I see no comment on killfiles.
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Perhaps I should slouch over to sourceforge and agitate for killfiles.
So, you see, AKATDN (what does that stand for, anyway? Also known as the damn newbie?) has inspired contributions to open-source software. Karma moves in circles, and suffering (dhuka) leads to improved open-source software. |
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