Lost a new commercial user this week :(

Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jan 1 06:58:57 PST 2015


On Thursday, 1 January 2015 at 14:24:36 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 01/01/15 13:55, Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> I'm seriously considering writing a new blog article for 
>> reddit, highlighting
>> the attitudes in this discussion because they are so seriously 
>> anti-success.
>
> I think that would be a bad idea, because the most likely 
> result would be only to further inflame bad feeling that is 
> currently starting to calm down, and to result in people 
> outside the D community being put off from attempting to take 
> part.
>
> I also think that, regardless of the broader issues, there is 
> no excuse for throwing around the kind of accusations you threw 
> at Dicebot.  Even if you most sincerely believe that someone is 
> behaving badly, that kind of vituperative personal attack has 
> no place in any responsible community.
>
> There's more than one way to be "anti-success", and one 
> sadly-too-common way is to indulge in such personal attacks, 
> which don't just cause bad feeling for the recipient but for 
> plenty of other community members who have to read them, and 
> wonder whether they too will be attacked for venturing an 
> opinion.

Probably. I'll leave it here and as Manu has said maybe this 
conversation is past its usefulness now. I'll go cool off.


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