Charles,
I think you're being rather harsh. I didn't read any of
Mark's posts that way. I thought he was offering additional
information.
And I find this thread more interesting than the De Palma
one, incidentally.
Karin
At 10:25 PM 18/02/2008 +0000, Charles wrote:
>Mark wrote:
>
>> Man, have I been struck by the sheer
>> nastiness of the responses to my
>> innocently offered idea. That'll
>> learn me...
>
>Not intending to pick a fight here, Mark, but you
didn't
>just "innocently offer" your idea -- you offered it
and offered it
>and offered it again, insistently and naggingly,
until this annoying
>meta-discussion about how best to hold our
discussions represented
>the majority of the messages coming across my screen
today. In the
>face of zero support from any quarter and more than a
few people
>saying, "Sorry, nope, not interested" you kept
insistently and
>repetitively explaining why you were right and all
the people you
>were failing to persuade were wrong.
>
>I don't think anyone would have responded
particularly negatively (in
>terms of tone -- they would still not have liked your
idea) if you
>had just said ONCE, "Listen, I know this might be a
lot of work, but
>I, at least, would like it better if we made the
following change and
>here is a list of the reasons the rest of you might
like it better,
>too. If no one's interested, fine; if you are
interested, let me
>know and I'll see what I can do to help make this
happen."
>
>But that's not what you did.
>
>For the record, no one could accuse me of being a
Luddite and I do
>appreciate the reasons some other platforms might be
better, but you
>know what? There's something to be said for inertia,
something to be
>said for the status quo, and even if I hadn't read
the many messages
>from people who don't want any change and the zero
messages from
>people agreeing with you, I'd have come down on the
side of
>encouraging the moderators to leave things the way
they are.
>
>Now, speaking only on my own behalf (but I suspect
I'm not the only
>one who feels this way), can we please let this topic
die?
>
>On the other hand: If you have anything to say about
the actual topic
>of this list -- crime fiction -- I very much hope you
will go ahead
>and post it.
>
>--Charles
>
>--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Mark R. Harris"
><brokerharris@...> wrote:
>>
>> Those were two of more than a dozen
functionalities that I
>mentioned. Not
>> the most important ones. But people seem to
reading just those bits
>that
>> they can back-slash me on.
>>
>> Man, have I been struck by the sheer nastiness
of the responses to
>my
>> innocently offered idea. That'll learn
me...
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> --
>> Mark R. Harris
>> 2122 W. Russet Court #8
>> Appleton WI 54914
>> (920) 470-9855
>> brokerharris@...
>>
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