Appropriateness of posts

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:41:26PM +0000, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 19 March 2014 19:43, Meta <jared771 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 19 March 2014 at 17:43:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >>
> >> Same here. I do remember that wasn't the peak of it. That happened
> >> when I tried to explain something as a "cultural difference".
> >> Probably it was taken as "cultural inferiority/superiority".
> >>
> >> Andrei
> >
> >
> > More like feigned idiocy on Ramon's part. There was the whole
> > "windoze" debacle with him as well. I was never sure if he was here
> > to discuss D or just subtly troll.
> 
> Oh, *that* Ramon.  I was trying to remember who he was. :-)
> 
> I seem to recall people being rather unfairly direct towards him on
> that, which in turn made the quality of his responses drop tenfold.
> Though I'm biased, I think my initial response to him was subtle, fair
> and justified.  If he continues to blindly ignore expressed wishes on
> netiquette, then simply don't response - or *do* respond, but save it
> in your drafts. ;-)

I had quite a few responses to him that sat in the =postponed file that
eventually I deleted, because I realized that it would only set him off
even more. Sometimes, the only way to win is to not play.


T

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