Re: [EVALUATION] - E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

From: Stephen Kellett (snail_at_objmedia.demon.co.uk)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:59:37 +0000

In message <1108405269.472669.172070@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, Pat
<pobrien@orbtech.com> writes
>now it feels like I'm in the company of a bunch of hell-bent school
>bullies.

 From my experience of bully behaviour that isn't what is happening here.
Bullying usually involves abusive behaviour and language and isn't much
to do with the topic as the person. The responses he has got are to do
with how he is behaving, not who he is. I haven't seen any abusive
language. As for behaviour, people are being as blunt with him as he is
with them. Many have also told him what he should do in order to get a
better response. He has ignored them.

Many societies around the world shun people that won't fit the norm. The
norm in the newsgroups he is causing trouble in is that "You look for
yourself first, do some research, then ask". He isn't even willing to
use a search engine, let alone read the documentation or heaven forbid,
read the source code himself. Sooner or later he'll give up, or realise
that if he does a bit of the work himself he'll get much more back. Its
up to him.

You'll notice that I've answered your question in another reply as its
obvious you have put some effort in before making your comments. In
other words I am not behaving in a contradictory way to what I specified
above.

Stephen 

-- 
Stephen Kellett
Object Media Limited    http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk
RSI Information:        http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk/rsi.html

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Mystery: static variables & performance
    ... >> responses to their questions. ... that C is a very versatile and pervasive language. ... about topicality, CLC actually does a favor to off-topic posters. ... there might be issues as to how his compiler is compiling the ...
    (comp.lang.c)
  • Re: Article on Finno-Ugric in the Economist
    ... > You quoted that the Prime Minister said that a convention will be applied ... > "in papers concerning Government statistics". ... > language, not in some no man's land between languages. ... > a more fundamental norm, up to the level of ultimate values such as ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: Cracking Go less than a decade away ?
    ... that would not, should not, even must not, be the norm for an individual. ... their only common ground is the language used. ... Commendable for Richard Dawkins, ... Concerning suicide we may as well admit that we have no real ...
    (rec.games.go)
  • Re: On topic or off topic (was Re: The cost of Mental Health)
    ... considered by the current audience to have content that is ... The responses to posts are an accurate measure: ... thats part of the evolution of language. ...
    (soc.religion.quaker)
  • Re: Goodbye, hopefully for the last time
    ... I came to this group because I thought I could be helpful to others learning English. ... But, I received the disrespectful, vulgar, and hateful responses that you are talking about and it was not from foreigners but from English speaking people who ridicule everything I posted. ... One just has to learn which ones are the more competent contributors in language matters. ...
    (alt.usage.english)