zskiraly opened this issue on Mar 08, 2005 ยท 114 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Thu, 10 March 2005 at 12:03 AM
"Gaul"?
I looked it up.
The ancient name for the country now known as France.
I seem to recall that the Romans conquered it.
"Leary"?
As in Timothy Leary?
He was some sort of 60's guru. Advocated getting high as a means to achieve world peace.
I would have been leery of him.
won't change the fact that putting those that have serious concerns about the upcoming app is just plain wrong
No one has put down anyone expressing serious concerns.
We have, however -- put down those that bash.
There is a fine distinction at work here.
Flame me if you feel like it
I only flame people that I feel deserve it.
Your initial approach to the matter is a little too straightforward and honest to merit flaming of the kind that you are referring to.
If you've got "serious problems" with P5, then state them. I would. I wouldn't hesitate to do so.
But I'd do it in such a way as to attempt to build up. Not to tear down and destroy.
Much of the criticism isn't constructive -- it's simply a forum version of hate mail. And who is going to bother with the suggestions of someone like that?
Shaking your fist in someone's face isn't the way to win their good opinion.
But it's a great way to get a fight started.
If one chooses to start a fight, then one shouldn't yell "it's not fair!" when someone else hits back.
"I have a problem with P5. I don't like the way that the Judy model looks."
vs.
"Listen, you IDIOTS!!! MORONS!!!! THEIVES!!!! How could anyone make something as ugly as that stinking JUDY piece of ........(TOS violation)........!!!!!!! You guys stole my life savings!!!!!!!! (TOS violation)(TOS violation)(TOS violation).........!!!!!!!!!"
This, of course, would be followed by various colorful suggestions concerning the staff at CL's ancestory; manhood; criminal tendencies; evil motives -- etc. etc........
You betcha I'll flame away at that sort of attitude.
In such a case, it's deserved.
I am reminded of the man that I once saw at McDonald's. It seemed that the workers at McD's had forgotten to put an extra large fries into his combo meal the night before. So he had come back, and was incoherently yelling, cussing out the folks behind the sales counter for a solid 10 minutes or more. A woman came over to me, and asked me if I had a cell phone? Would I please call 911?
I did then, and I'd do it again.
In fact, I'd take a personal hand, if the situation called for it.
Many of the CL bashers remind me of that man in McDonalds.
I've seen others of his kind elsewhere.
No one is worshipping Curious Labs........
.........nor should anyone be demonizing them.
Either attitude is equally wrong.
It's just that the demonizers either don't see or don't care about the damage that they are doing. Or about the spectacle that they are making of themselves.
Then again -- they might know exactly what they are doing.
If that's the case -- then as kids, they probably thought that it was great fun to trash the neighbor's car, too.
If one chooses to launch personal attacks, then one shouldn't be surprised when the same tactics are returned in the mail -- postage due.