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Re: Keen Observers of Community...
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Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:58:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
> Anyway, if I don't like a website, you know what I do? I never visit it.
> And if I never visit it, then I don't care what happens there.
Agreed. Unfortunately, I wouldn't have any way of knowing whether I liked the
site unless I had visited there. But I certainly plan to buy less of their
product in the future.
> It's like in school--you have the different 'cliques'--if you don't want to
> belong to a clique, then don't belong--leave 'em alone to do their own cliquey
> things. Who cares what they do? They're doing it, and not you.
I agree. And I certainly plan to buy less of their product in the future.
> Maybe it's me, but stating in an open forum that 'those guys over there are
> doing something that I don't like' when it has nothing to do with you or the
> forum you're posting in is like, well... blatantly idiotic. I'd go so far as to
> say, 'even if those guys over there on a site that I don't care about and never
> visit are making fun of me' --hey, honestly, I'll never go over there so why do
> I care? I don't care--they're being the idiots and I refuse to stoop to their
> level.
Yes, I am an idiot for allowing myself to be baited, although I don't fully
agree with your suggestion that what is going on over there has nothing to do
with this forum.
And I certainly plan to buy less of their product in the future.
> All this isn't to say that the folks on Jlug are idiots or talking behind
> people's backs. I happen to actually frequent Jlug because I like the people
> that post there and don't see anything wrong with the way they do things 'over
> there'. But it is 'over there' on Jlug ... not 'over here' on LUGNET, until
> someone with thin skin and with nothing better to do with one's time than to
> upset the apple cart, brings it 'over here', thus causing the very thing that
> most of us rally against (and one of the main reasons that LUGNET has become a
> virtual ghost town) stupid idiotic threads that get people's knickers in a knot,
> started by non-thinking people who should have left things well enough alone, or
> at the very least taken up their little issue with Jlug, well, on JLUG and NOT
> LUGNET!
Understood. Which is why I placed this thread in o-t.d, where it would be
largely invisible to anyone who didn't specifically come in here looking for it.
In LUGNET's heyday there were endless o-t.debates going on all the time.
Increased traffic in here does not correlate with reduced traffic on the other
newsgroups.
In order for me to have taken this issue up on JLUG, I would first have had to
grovel for membership in a group which I have no interest in joining. Although
I am frequently sarcastic, I could never be so insincere.
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| (...) For someone who dislikes JLUG so much, you certainly seem to be quite aware of our CTOPs. Why would you bother going through all the trouble of looking them up if you didn't like JLUG from the outset? And why do you use them so often if the (...) (18 years ago, 25-Nov-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Selçuk Göre wrote: <snip> (...) I vote Chris But I always vote for Chris... Anyway, if I don't like a website, you know what I do? I never visit it. And if I never visit it, then I don't care what happens there. It's like (...) (18 years ago, 24-Nov-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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