On 04 Jan 23 11:02:24, Ward Dossche said the following to Dan Clough:
DC> Michiel is a little too........... preachy, for me.
WD>
WD> Try to look at it from a different angle.
I have tried Ward and I have failed to become impressed.
I have failed, because that person has failed to impress ME.
And I give everyone one chance. Objectiveness, fair, open-minded, my trust, you
name it. I've sent Sysops money, computers, source code, I've lost count how
many hours I've put into that silly mailer, how many times Sean Dennis calls
because he needs someone to talk to... We won't get into how many times you and
I have traded silly Netmails because we are friends. We have trust.
Now that chance is immediately and forever blown when someone acts towards me
like a techno-dick (preachy/lecturing on tech I don't care jack-shit to hear
or insisting its SOOOOOO important) or calling me a liar (as that "soft
spoken" person did with his incorrect assessment of IPV4 in Canada a decade ago)
or generally just behaving in a weird douchebag way.
Preachy techno-dick nonsense doesn't sit well with me because I've been in IT in
a professional capacity for 25+ years. I've worked with IT managers who talk a
great game but know shit about PC repair-101. I've worked with bench techs who
can barely speak English but work magic with Linux. And I've worked with many
who claimed blahblahblah tech will be blahblahblah popular and they were (and
are) clearly WRONG... Myspace, Microsoft Zune, Bitcoin and IPV6.
Chances are also immediately blown when a person goes out of their way to be
vindictive, trolling, making cute little passive-aggressive remarks... and
starting that stupid "nodelist police" echo ONLY after I outright refused to be
a dictator to RC's. Thats the only reason you enjoy that echo. You have me to
thank for that. It was created because I refuse to take marching-orders
from a passive-aggressive Dutch techno-dick with no balls and no life.
So I will celebrate their grand departures wholeheartedly and I guarantee the
overall tone of the network will be vastly improved without techno-dicks or
douchebags or a troll lecturing about America from behind a Swedish keyboard.
I do not give second chances, I do not look past their odd mannerisms or shrug
it off as a "cultural thing", I will not see things from their point of view.
I have always played fair with everyone. They have never played fair with me.
An asshole is an asshole in any language.
Nick
--- Renegade vY2Ka2
* Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
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