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Originally Posted by kamjam
The premise for this thread is great. Bash the bashers for bashing. Didn't they teach something in Sunday school about how fruitless this is?
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Peter Gabriel's "Not One of Us" comes to mind. A tune in which
Peter Gabriel Plays Live he dedicates to "... those groups of people who break themselves up into smaller groups of people in order that they may feel superior by excluding others...."
Definitely some major 'tude going on hereabouts. Yeah, it's hard not to get calloused dealing with "clueless end lusers" day in and day out when you're in tech support related capacity. But better to rise above than sink lower. Managed a few forums in my day so I know it's hard not to become jaded. Modding is not just a job, but an art form in and of itself.
There's LOTS of info available on the net, much of which is erroneous. And you never know how much of this erroneous info a new user has encountered and been confounded by before arriving here.
For example, seeing how some of the other threads get closed comparatively easily, I was waiting for the shoe to drop on my IMAP thread. But guess what? Among the gripes there's also some good, relevant, tech discussion that cleared up confusion arising, not from lazy clueless me, but more from people who you would expect to know what's up giving you erroneous info. Then some snide remarks along the lines of us getting to complex. Well heck, " BlackBerry Architecture --> BlackBerry Network" seemed like appropriate place for the discussion to me. Turns out that problem was not on my end at all but some RIM/BIS backend glitch that we'll never know about because RIM doesn't seem to like to admit to such things. However, feedback from other *nix admin is what kept me from writing it off as MS centric softwear design incompatibility. Something I was obviously not alone in, as I've already "given back" by helping another *nix admin get theirs working.
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Originally Posted by LunkHead
You see what they did to beastie???? I have a thread in off-topic trying to figure out who avatar-napped him and is forcing him to hold an iPhone....
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LunkHead - regarding your comments about Beastie and Iphone - I assume you know who JKH is and that OSX
IS FreeBSD at it's core. So it's not too big a stretch to see Beastie with an IPhone cuz that IPhone is likely running FBSD kernel.