| Posted on 13-Apr-2001 10:23 GMT by Christian Kemp | 29 comments
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As you might have noticed, messages of questionable content have been posted on ANN under fictious names, Fleecy's name, as well as my own name. In the latest case, the border between harmless joke and abuse/slander has clearly been crossed, and I have invoked abuse procedures. The ISP of the offending poster has been contacted, and I'm hoping they will take appropriate measures. Any future postings that fall under the same category (abuse/slander and/or impersonating some other person) will also yield the same reaction: removal of the offending posting without any further comment, contacting of the ISP, and if everything else fails, legal action. This clearly cannot continue.
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| Posted by skal on 12-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT | Kudos, Christian!!!
Look, the problem with those that loudly trumpet "their rights" is that, in a forum such as this and with a hot-button issue such as this, the trumpeters are the ones that seem to think that said rights are a blank check to post anything, no matter how infantile, libelous, slanderous or just plain dumb as a ditch carp.
Frankly, there is too much classical Maoism going on these days, with people trying to stake out "Amiga Purity" as their own territory. In that little clusterfsck of purity, they would like you to believe that they really, really, really have the best interests of all of us at heart. Really. No kidding. They really do. Just ask them.
Well I say that this stuff is just so much bovine-generated organic effluvient.
On a shingle.
The behaviors I saw displayed on the #developer IRC sessions, the Aminet affair, the postings on the web and Usenet, the personal attacks, the attempts at nuking your monthly bandwidth, all point to some people in the community that would do us and themselves a big favor by taking something stout, say a sledgehammer or a cricket bat and smashing their Amigas into something that resembles a pizza. After that, getting some real and substantive help for their personality disorders, before they turn into something far more serious and they become a danger to themselves or others.
One other note: I was apprised of the fact that after the Aminet affair, Urban's inbox was deluged by nearly 1000 emails, a good number of them mind-roastingly abusive, as if abusing such a selfless volunteer as Urban addresses the core issues facing the Amiga Community. Where in the hell is the outrage? Where are the men and women of good will speaking up, and yes, trying to find out just whom it was that attacked Aminet and the community, for make no mistake about it, this was an attack. In the past, the howls from people about this sorry-assed stuff would have been deafening. Now, all we get is fake posts from drooling mouthbreathers.
I think we all need to wake up and get hit by the cluetrain. Or we all will wake up one day and not have Jack Sh*t to look forward to...
Kudos again, my man. |
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