On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:47:01 -0500 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:59:19 -0500 > > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > It is a bit ironic that you chose this as the part to quote when > adding a snide remark. My whole point was that we shouldn't > NEEDLESSLY drop old versions, You seemed to have taken this as a > complaint about dropping old versions when there is a valid reason for > doing so. > > Your tone here is anything but helpful. My intent was really to > contribute to the discussion constructively and point out a pain point > for people running mixed-keywords. Perhaps I didn't explain my point > as well as I could have. When somebody is saying something that > doesn't seem sensible to you, it is usually better to assume that they > just didn't make their point well than to assume that they don't have > anything worth saying. > Bravo. Lemme think of an example of similar replies I have had to endure in this style. 'Your logic / code makes no sense' (Well logical thinking is a tad beyond me yeah) One will do. Other authors might recognise their closed minded retorts and other such blunders. What ever was so hard about politely prompting to please re-phrase, or, more casually, run that by me again, or "I need you to re-state that", or even plain 'huh'. Alternatively; wtf are you saying? (Love that one) Let's consider the lack of virtues of leaping to the wrong interpretation aka misunderstanding the data put, then jumping in head first & retorting to the 'sender' with what amounts to a blatant smack down. But, as the guides to use of irc tells us in the first place; pure text, absent of the remainder of visual and auditory metadata, offers a highly restricted context, highly prone to error. aka, text on a screen. In other words, a disaster looking for a location. Oh and dol-sen don't feel you're being picked on. You of all folk are NOT one to typically fall over this one. Wish it were someone far more 'typical'. But I stray, NOT troll. What were we talking about again? -- kind regards Ian Delaney
