On Friday, 23 August 2013 at 02:41:35 UTC, Ramon wrote:
> On Friday, 23 August 2013 at 01:17:55 UTC, bsd wrote:
>> Well, that's a bit harsh. Can we close this thread?
>
> Aren't you a bit harsh here?
>
> After all, as a quick forum search suggests, "Wise Words", or more correctly the person who usually writes under another screen name here made the effort to bravely use another screen name in order to ... uhm ... troll.
>
> I guess "Wise Words" didn't mean me but rather told us about an experience where someone told him "Grow a pair and move on". Evidently he didn't follow at least the first part of the advice given to him.
>
> Amusing.


Indeed, BS you are a troll :D

On Friday, 23 August 2013 at 04:23:14 UTC, bsd wrote:
> On Friday, 23 August 2013 at 02:41:35 UTC, Ramon wrote:
>> On Friday, 23 August 2013 at 01:17:55 UTC, bsd wrote:
>>> Well, that's a bit harsh. Can we close this thread?
>>
>> Aren't you a bit harsh here?
>>
>> After all, as a quick forum search suggests, "Wise Words", or more correctly the person who usually writes under another screen name here made the effort to bravely use another screen name in order to ... uhm ... troll.
>>
>> I guess "Wise Words" didn't mean me but rather told us about an experience where someone told him "Grow a pair and move on". Evidently he didn't follow at least the first part of the advice given to him.
>>
>> Amusing.
>
>
> Indeed, BS you are a troll :D

OK you got me, I'll stop :-P

Damn, bitten by a gravatar !

On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:20:36 +0100, Ramon <spam@thanks.no> wrote:
> Regan Heath

Ramon

> You try to wrap it nicely but in the end you just prove my hypothesis right.

*sigh* if that's your takeaway I doubt anything I can say will change your mind, it's not how I see it.

To conclude.  There are no tactics, tricks or anything else other than bare honesty being employed here, you're seeing all the rest entirely off your own bat, including the "offense" given by Andrei.

Imagine how this looks to a regular poster of this group.  Andrei posts something which is normal for him and normal for this group.  You react in a way which is /not/ normal for this group.  Which one of you is "miss-behaving" (according to the group)?

I agree context counts, Andrei's words to you in the context of this group were "normal" and not at all offensive.  If you were to take his words and replace those which have meaning in this context with another which you were familiar with, you would not have taken offense.

You cannot expect to post in a context unknown to you without some confusion, how you chose to deal with that confusion is the key, and as I said before and will say one last time "assume good intent".

R

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