in reply to In praise for a better community -- Vere papa mortuus est

Meh. He's not the first and won't be the last to leave in a huff: Abigail-II was a greater loss in the same category, IMHO, as Abigail has broader expertise than does BrowserUk.

I think trippledubs nailed the issue in his post discussing the gradient between "don't offend anybody, above all" and "don't care at all about offending somebody". People fall on different points on that spectrum. As you know, I am quick to speak out forcefully against others who I feel are bullies or freeloaders, and that's offensive to lots of people and I get downvoted heavily for it ... but for me, so far, that's OK and I can live with the dynamic tension trippledubs refers to.

BrowserUk had less tolerance for the tension, and I guess when he said of a fellow senior Monk "It BS like this and morons like you that make this place not worth the time any more", he meant it. So he split. Whatever. That's cool. That's his choice and one must assume he is doing what he feels is best for him.

Petulantly trying to delete the posts he contributed to the Monastery is a different thing altogether. That's really sociopathic, and I can think of only one other Monk who wanted to do that. Just the latest similarity between BrowserUk and his great nemesis, if you ask me.


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Re^2: In praise for a better community -- Vere papa mortuus est
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 07, 2019 at 22:17 UTC

    BrowserUk had the twin problem of being very smart, probably among the smartest here, but not smart enough to justify his level of arrogance. His abuse of fellow monks, even when he correctly diagnosed them as being less smart than himself, though he wasn't batting 1000 on that, earned him far too many upvotes, and when the downvotes did outnumber the upvotes, he arrogantly assumed the voters were also dumb enough to be ignored. He should have been booted ages ago as his toxicity far outweighed his educational value.

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      He wasn't that arrogant, he just had the problem to admit once he was wrong, and that's when he went parabolic with his childish wrath and starting to damage the monastery. And his fanboys cheered with up votes.

      He wasn't that intelligent either, like many of us he had his field of expertise. He was just very dedicated to fill that niche, because he loved the monastery.

      Anyway this whole thread is annoying, neither is he dead nor does he deserve this amount of character assassination. Without this thread he would have at least a chance to think it over and silently come back.

      He would probably diagnose that a bunch of mediocre monks are using the opportunity to show off. And he would be right.

      The whole pope thing is a farce anyway.

      - a dissident

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