Re: I call bullshit

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Greg Lewin <greg.lewin@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 28 April 2013 18:25, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Greg Lewin <greg.lewin@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > On 28 April 2013 18:15, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com>
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>> >>> Whether or not the subject is a troll, there's no reason to be
>> >>> stooping to namecalling and ad hominem attacks. Let's show some
>> >>> maturity here.
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>> >> Absolutely, let's move on. And nothing justifies using large font HTML
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>> >> emails ;)
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>> > well, your last line wrt maturity could be seen as ad hominem in itself.
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>> > But more importantly, he is making major claims and being quite
>> > immoderate
>> > in his language in doing so (and showing clear signs of a manic state).
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>> > afaics there are two main categories of troll - the malicious and the
>> > ill; I
>> > am merely pointing out that he looks very like the second variety,
>> > recognising that may save time in the long run, and I don't see much
>> > point
>> > in pretending otherwise.
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>> > I don't see why anyone needs to be patient with or polite to the
>> > malicious
>> > sort, for that matter.
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>> > (I did not realize I was coming through large, my apologies).
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>> (You're stil coming through quite large, looks like about 18pt.)
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>> No one ever said you have to be patient or polite to malicious
>> individuals, but it's rather immature to go out of one's way to deride
>> someone (for any reason!) on a development mailing list.
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>> /s/ Adam
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> it's not derision (that is your view); it is recognition.
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> https://www.google.com/search?q=%0D%0Amanic%20state
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It's still an ad hominem attack, focusing on a (perceived or
otherwise) flaw in the individual instead of discussing the points of
the topic at hand.

/s/ Adam