Stan Hoeppner: «Doing this via subterfuge simply reduces people's level of respect for you» «In your 10,000th attempt to generate self gratification by demonstrating your superior knowledge (actually lack thereof) on this list, all you could have possibly achieved here is confusing the OP even further. I find it sad that you've decided to prey on the young, the inexperienced, after realizing the educated began ignoring you long ago.» Cristoph Hellwig: «he's made himself a name as not only beeing technically incompetent but also extremly abrasive.» «But please stop giving advise taken out of the thin air to people on the lists that might actually believe whatever madness you just dreamed up.» Dave Chinner: «Just ignore the troll, Stan.» «But instead of taking the evidence-based verification path, you've resorted to personal attacks to defend your tenuous logic.» «you've made a habit of this behaviour. Every discussion thread you enter ends up with you abusing someone because they dared to either question your assertions or didn't understand what you said precisely.» «you've finally reached my Intolerable Dickhead On The Internet Threshold. Given that this is on the XFS mailing list, and I'm the XFS Maintainer it falls to me to draw a line in the sand: such behaviour is not acceptible in this forum.» According to Russel Cattelan (the owner of XFS the mailing list at least in 2012) and "other prominent members of the XFS team" the statements I quoted above are «acceptible in this forum»: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-04/threads.html#00051 «[ ... ] turning the XFS mailing list in a disreputable vehicle for offtopic and offensive flaming. This to me this looks like mobbing, beause coordinated personal attacks have been done by a small group of people [ ... ]» Russell Cattelan: «You must be joking! I'm not about to ban one of the most knowledgeable and productive xfs developers from the email list.» «Well, if one of these guys post offtopic and malicious rants, I guess that his being an XFS developer should not matter. With being an XFS developer comes also some responsibility to maintain a technical and professional tone in the XFS mailing list, and not to abuse his position. Same for the others.» Russel Cattelan: «I see nothing particularly offensive about these posts.» «They personal attacks about competence and character. They are pure flames, and because they are coordinated they seem to be mobbing. To me, you seem to be expliciting endorsing the use of the XFS mailing list to publish "ad hominem" attacks and mobbing.» Russel Cattelan: «I can understand you may upset about what Christoph said he has every right to state his opinions on things no matter how much you disagree.» «But his opinions are on offtopic "things": the topic of the XFS mailing list is XFS, not people's competence or character, or rants/attacks on people. Some of the links I have sent you contain no technical content, purely personal attacks. How can this be legitimate XFS content?» Russell Cattelan: «Well I'm afraid I'm going to respectfully disagree. I don't have the full story of everything that happened but none of the post you pointed out are totally off topic. There seems to be some question about what you have said previously about XFS, which to me would seem on topic. I have forwarded your email to Christoph and the other prominent members of the XFS team and if they feel further action is warranted we can revisit the issue. Based on what you have sent I do not feel there is grounds for action.» _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
