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What the he** are "contacts"? Chaos Intellect review - and why that prog, too, seems to be up for the bin
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Posted by WSP
Feb 27, 2014 at 08:30 PM
I also find 22111’s contributions mostly incomprehensible and sometimes offensive, but isn’t it time to give this topic a rest? Let’s talk about software again, shall we?
Bill
Posted by Prion
Feb 27, 2014 at 09:31 PM
22111 wrote:
>- Also, EVERY time I see some “with due respect” - and that’s another
>recurrence here -, I then read real dumb blah-blah,
So you are saying that it happens to you in other forums, too?
> don’t read posts whose author even took the effort to
>point the reader, by proper titling,
Yep, concise and to-the-point.
> a dumbo wants to speak plain English
We appreciate your modesty.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 27, 2014 at 11:19 PM
I had an writing professor in college who taught us this lesson:
It’s never the reader’s fault if they don’t understand you. It is the job of the author to write in such a way that the meaning of his or her work can’t be misunderstood by the reader.
I suppose you can ignore that advice if you are a master writer, but for the rest of us, it is worth keeping in mind.
Steve Z.
Posted by Simon Bolivar
Feb 28, 2014 at 09:46 PM
WSP, whilst you are right that we should be talking about the topic in hand in this thread, it is not unreasonable for forum members who in the main have been here many years; and I would imagine similar to myself enjoy the calm respectful and information laden posts, to look somewhat askance to the iconoclast in our midst after his very many posts made over a sustained period of time.
I have tried to read the posts of ‘22111’ and find them hard going because of his rambling and hectoring style, rudeness and great length. As I frequent other forums and am used to WUM’s I know how they operate and am not convinced that 22111 is a WUM, although his presence here does puzzle me for one main reason: he puts time and effort into his very many loooooooooong posts and I have to wonder at how much free time he has on his hands and why he would keep pouring himself so determinedly into belabouring us here when typically his posts are either ignored outright or given only a cursory response?
This is not the first time that 22111’s posts have been commented upon, although the kind of jocular posts about him in this thread are indicative of an increasing lack of patience with him and his patronising and argumentative manner. Perhaps he will learn, but I don’t think he will unfortunately.
Posted by WSP
Mar 1, 2014 at 02:08 AM
A couple of years ago I first encountered 22111 (when he traveled under a different name) in the MyInfo forum, where he began innocuously enough and then gradually produced general mayhem and distress just as he has here; and then, tracing him backward, I discovered that he had earlier had a similarly unhappy relationship with the AskSam forum.
He strikes me as a genuinely intelligent fellow with some occasionally interesting ideas (if you can penetrate his tangled prose, which makes *Finnegans Wake* seem lucid by comparison). But the real issue is his ad hominem arguments. They seem to be designed to stir up the forum, to provoke quarrels, and thus to make himself the center of discussion; that is why my advice is that we ignore the provocations and try to get back to other subjects.
One of the things I have always admired about this forum is its remarkable atmosphere of civility (comparatively rare on the Web) and mutual helpfulness.