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Apology to RGO newsgroup
I am playing Devil's advocate he
I find myself in the uncomfortable situation of defending bad manners and rudeness, but the thing is that on 02/10/2004 I posted a polite response to the first picture that Troy posted to both ABPO and RGO. My response is archived in Google, Troy's picture is not because Google does not archive picture posts. URL:http://groups.google.com/groups?selm....gnilin k.net So you see this is not a first time offense. Troy either did not read my response, but I think it is more likely that Troy ignored my friendly reprimand -- I replied to both abpo and rgo, so even if Troy did not knowingly cross-post he should have seen the reply (unless like Al's server, Troy's server swallows posts selectively). I must admit that I am also a bit suspicious of Troy's claim that he did not know that his newsreader added rec.gardens.orchids without his knowledge. I can't at this point say that this is not possible, but I have my doubts. What newsreader would that be? How does that happen? If noone says anything when someone does something wrong, or if we only reply with polite reminders of the netiquette, in the end I suspect more people would ignore them. While I do not generally think that being rude is a good solution, and thus am somewhat uncomfortable with the stance I am taking here, still I think that sometimes even a polite group such as ours needs to be shaken up. While I would hate to be at the receiving end of one of Mick's rants myself (and there are times when I have deserved them if not here then at abpo, where I have at times posted pictures of bad quality and forgetting to size them down, and I have at least on one occasion posted a message without thinking that caused someone grief or offense), however, the truth is that it is very difficult to ignore Mick's rants, and thus while unpleasant, his way may actually be effective in ensuring that people pay attention. Maybe we can find a middle way, something in between polite reminders and chainsaws cutting off hands at picnic tables. However, as always each of us is responsible for what we post, and the impression that we make to the world. This is a free unmoderated forum. One of the downsides of it is that we need to moderate it ourselves. Some of us are better at being polite than others, but politeness is not always the highest virtue, and while I agree that some of the things Mick spouted were too extreme, I suspect Troy and the many readers throughout the world will get over the shock of reading his posts, and if one does not want to be offended in the future, there is always the option of not reading any posts written by Mick Fournier (and I suspect he won't care if you decide to boycott him through selective reading as well). Joanna |
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