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Re: Social Engineering (was: Re: The Friendliest Site On The Internet. (Was Re: A little self examination?))
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Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:39:47 GMT
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This is tough but I think its a worthy discussion...
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> I think Todd got "played". (And I recently said I didn't think Todd was easy
> to fool)
With all due respect to Todd, I think Larry is right to an extent. I told Todd
in a private E-mail that I thought MM was mostly full of it. MM thinks very
highly of himself and I would be supprised if he had many "real" freinds. My
guess is that MM lives in a virtual world with little social interaction out of
it.
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> Social Engineering my foot. If that was what MM was up to, it has no place
> here. But I don't think it was, I think it was just another layer of
> deception. This guy is amazingly deep and amazingly twisted.
I also mentioned to Todd that I thought MM seemed to contradict himself
regularly and seemed to have hugh emotional swings. I wouldn't be supprised if
MM had some sort of schizophrenic or multiple personality disorder
(Unfortunately I have a fair amount of family experiance with this). Of course
that is an assumption on my part and I am not a doctor but it is clear MM has
some real problems.
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> Now, I do think that helping people out with things like spelling hygiene and
> how to ask questions and where stuff is and so forth is worthy and could
> possibly be construed as SE. But I don't think it is. If it was I'd be against
> it and I'm not so it must not be. :-)
Well personally I could care less about spelling as long as it is just a word
here or there. Actually I got pretty peeved once when someone E-mailed me
correcting my spelling, I didn't do anything about it but I was peeved.
If all SE was for was to make someone look at something through a different set
of eyes then I am for it. Knowing and understanding different philosophies is
a good thing, forcing your views on someone is not.
Anyway when all is said and done I think MM was only trying to disrupt and
cause chaos with no higher calling. Why he would want to do this in the LEGO
community I don't know but to each their own. I never responded directly to
any of MM's posts becuase I didn't want to give him any added satisfaction. I
did respond to other posts when I thought they were misguided but that is
because I do feel that sometimes we are a little to nice and accepting here. I
think we could all use a look in the mirror occasionally because that will help
us become better as a community. Constant praise usually doesn't lead to
advancement, a little self examination and healthy debating does.
So maybe in the future we can be a tad more critical but of course in a nice
way. I know I often ask for feedback here both positive and negative (in a
constructive sense) and to tell you the truth I learn more from the
critical/constructive posts then the posts of praise. I also don't get
offended by critical posts which might be a problem for some so maybe this is
not a good approach for all.
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> Sorry for that, it sounded funny when I typed it. But my UK flight is about to
> be called so I gotta be terse.
Thats OK lots of what you write here I find funny and terse. ;-)
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
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