Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A year or two ago I booted Anthony from the LUG because his postings to it always made it a worse place. I may or may not have formed an opinion about his personality; my choice to remove him was based on the effect that his postings have on others. There are 1200 people on the LUG, and perhaps only 1 or 2 or 3 of them consistenly annoy others. Anthony, for whatever reason, seems to annoy more people than anybody else. Anthony, I have no idea whether you understand the effect that your in-writing personality has on people, so I don't know whether you are doing it on purpose. If you are doing it on purpose, please take this as a warning to back off. If you don't understand what we are talking about, don't do this on purpose, but are simply doing what you do, then I have to warn you that I am seriously contemplating blocking you again. In this forum you are defined by what you say and not who you are, and what you say is, in my opinion, not valuable to the LUG in toto. One of the intriguing properties of evaluating people by what they say and not by who they are is that it doesn't really matter what email address you used. When "mxsmanic" joined the LUG, it was instantly obvious that this was the same person as anthony@atkielski.com. I've kicked about a dozen people off the LUG in the 10 years that it has existed. I normally don't even announce it; I just do it. The person vanishes, and nobody ever knows why. One person was kicked off for using an assumed name to say obscene things about another LUGger; I guess he thought I couldn't trace him. He has come back under a new email address but has totally behaved himself since his return, so his staying here is fine with me. You came back under a new email address and have not, in my opinion, behaved yourself since your return. I will decide what to do about 'the Anthony problem' this weekend. I would like to remind everyone else that 'express scorn with silence' is a good policy. Brian Reid Barkeeper