On 11/6/2010 11:35 AM, Stan Goodman wrote:
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Subject: Re: [opensuse] Re: broken email list usage and demands that users change to adapt to broken software... Date: Saturday 06 November 2010 From: JB<yochanon@yahoo.com> To: osdihfh@hsawuidgfeuih.org
--- On Fri, 11/5/10, Stan Goodman<stan.goodman@hashkedim.com> wrote:
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Not to even mention her vocabulary.
Heh heh...I think you mean me, not her.
Not really funny.
And I'm supposed to give a shit, why?
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That seems to be the problem, so there really is no surprise here. The curiosity is only that, in a forum that is careful about weeding out OT posts, nobody seems to be much concerned about your filthy language which does not add as much to the level of discourse as you may believe. The moderator (who has recently admitted that there is one) might consider defining limits to the kind of violent gutter talk that is allowed.
I would dislike for others to be censored based on any particular persons or group of persons standards of decorum. Personal attacks I can see being disallowed. But: * Ppersonal attacks do not require profanity. * Profanity is not used solely for personal attacks. * While there may be a few things that almost everyone will agree to cnsider profanity, there are other things that some people consider profane and others would consider the censoring of it profane. So, I would say it's no ones business to even try to govern something as subjective as profanity. Let the social interactions shake themselves out naturally. If someone is distasteful, let everyone else simply find them distasteful. The penalty for that will happen all by itself. Perhaps they find no satisfaction here and go away. Perhaps they recover from their bad day/week/month and are no longer distasteful. Perhaps gradually they learn how and why to even bother to get along with others. Perhaps others do not find every little expletive distasteful in the first place because life is better with a little spice and heat and humor. Perhaps they stay distasteful and stay around but perhaps that doesn't prevent them from being _right_ and/or having valuable insight into technical matters. Perhaps they are both distasteful and technically valueless and even that is useful as a negative example to refer to once in a while. Perhaps it's better to have a little profanity than to allow the nanny logic any validity because that way leads eventually to things like web forum software that break technical data, ie rewriting a cd/dvd drive manufacturer/model string from "MATSHITA UJ892AS" into "MAT[* profanity *]A UJ892AS I would rather deal with a correct asshole than a polite dipshit ANY AND EVERY DAY. "sticks & stones" people. It's perhaps not _necessary_ to swear, but it's actually _counter-productive_ to care about merely seeing it. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org