On Saturday 12 January 2008, fire-eyes wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Ciaran Mcreesh - I am very specifically looking at you here. > > Very strongly agree with Mr McCreesh (spelling?). While I respect his > technical abilities and contributions, I believe his horrible > attitude, clear trolling and ability to pit devs against each other, > seemingly for fun, is far more harmful. That he wasn't gotten rid of > early on is actually the biggest sign of problems in my eyes. That he > has fans and followers is another.
Ciaran seems to suffer from a horrible affliction that is common amongst highly technical people: A poorly developed sense of how to deal with other people coupled with never having realised that people are not machines, do not react like machines and need to be handled differently. You maintain machines by focusing on what is wrong with them and changing that. You handle people by focusing on what they do right and reinforcing that. I used to do what Ciaran does, and I used to do it a *lot*. Lucky for me, one day someone came along with a very big stick and hammered it through my thick skull that there is a better way. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
