On Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:45:44 UTC+11, Simon King wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > On 2014-11-27, Andrew <andrew...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > Speaking only for myself, it is exactly this sort of post that I would > like > > to avoid. Why can't the person who gets "loud" taker a breather, calm > down > > and post something more sensible tomorrow? > > Because s/he is, for whatever reason, not able to. S/he is doing a > mistake. But this can not be an excuse for people to commit the same > mistake, even though they would be able to avoid it. >
Hi Simon, You seem to be saying that if, for some reason, person A can't help it then it's OK but person B should not respond in the same way. Whilst I agree that this can happen, what if Person B is unable, for whatever reason, to contain themselves? Then, in response, Person A is again unable to contain themselves, for whatever reason, ... Where does it stop? Wouldn't it be better if Person A just learned, for whatever reason, to contain themselves? > > I think it is hypocritical to > > say that it is OK for some one to write "loud" posts and then to ask > anyone > > who gets put off by this to take a break. If the loud person was > > considerate from the start none of this would be necessary. > > I think it is hypocritical to say that it is OK for anyone to become > loud and inconsiderate if one other person was. > I agree entirely. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
