Re: More "calm down" requests
Dee-Ann LeBlanc <[email protected]>
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John Andersen <jsa-qezjBH/[email protected]> wrote: > I call it pre-emptive anti-flame. And I do it to prevent ill feelings. I call it swaggering in with attitude. I don't think it has the effect you intend. If you come in sounding hostile (which you do), then you are setting up a hostile situation and coloring the kinds of responses you are likely to get back. This is a no hostility zone. ;) > > There is no point makeing an argument knowing full well what > the predictable result will be, without addressing those issues > ahead of time. Doing that is Trolling, and its intellectually > dishonest - like laying in wait. The problem is that you aren't just saying, "Yes, I've tried this and this and this already." You're throwing attitude and trolling in a different way. -- Dee-Ann LeBlanc, RHCE Lots of things Linux http://www.Dee-AnnLeBlanc.com/