Re: Re: Can a Pontiff become an initiate in one night?

The best way to handle something you don't like, is not to make a show about it, but rather to ignore it. This is the way the "real world" works best. The proper analogy is unhappiness in the work place. It's better to let things slide than to make a big deal about them. One should only post when he cares to post, and not worry about what he posts. That's a community.

Your protest has only raised the attention "XP" has. Seriously, I have never looked at anyone's node for XP checking purposes, only to see what cool stuff they put there. If XP showed up beside your name on every post, that might be significant, but really it's not significant at all. I don't know who you are, or the order of any rankings, only that some time, I need to make me a picture :)

Though I haven't been here as long as you, I believe XP main purpose is to keep new users from front-paging stupid things or becoming annoying. It's a good system of community moderation. Personally, I take note of people I agree with, and that help me with my problems. I remember their handles for making me think, that's all. That's all the personal XP I need, but if we have a moderation system that keeps nodes sorted and runs itself, assume. Cool use of automation. Let the folks that help folks get some credit, and let them become more involved -- that's what it does.

So, long story short, if you have a problem with XP, don't pay attention to yours. That's all you had to do.

Methinks thou protesteth too much. Really, this is the best language community on the net, bar none.

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Re: Re: Re: Can a Pontiff become an initiate in one night? by l2kashe (Deacon) on Feb 06, 2004 at 17:34 UTC
The best way to handle something you don't like, is not to make a show about it, but rather to ignore it. This is the way the "real world" works best. The proper analogy is unhappiness in the work place. It's better to let things slide than to make a big deal about them. One should only post when he cares to post, and not worry about what he posts. That's a community. I have to bite, this grates so bad. I'm sure I am misreading what you are saying, but feel like providing some feedback. If you don't agree/like/understand something the WORST thing to do is ignore it. That is truely the path to destruction. Simply ignoring an issue can lead eventually to extreme apathy and worst case bad decision making, _especially_ in the work place. If you don't like something, figure out why you don't like it, and what the proper course of action is. Does it require a change in the way you think or interact with your environment? If so can you deal with the repercussions of altering how you fit in that environment and remain "happy"? If so, make the changes and see how things go. If you don't think you can maintain in the environment post change is there something else you could do, that would make it ok? If so change and see how it goes. If you want something to change, and that change requires changes from someone else the approach could be fundamentally flawed, depending on the environment. I.e A change which requires your peergroup to change as well is unreasonable in most cases. This is in comparison to requiring change of people you are responsible for (i.e employees, your children, etc). In the case of the topic for this thread, the monk in question didn't like the system, so made a change in their environment, which allows them to maintain, with the smallest impact to the rest. It's not like they went on an anti-XP vandetta, nor simply up and left due to their attatchment to the community. I personally feel it takes a far stronger person to stand up and implement a change in their modus operendi, than to simply ignore a situation and maintain. Again personal opinion is if far less people simply ignored what they didn't like/understand the world would be a far better place. But that is just me. My 2 cents, for what its worth. Also note this isn't so much directed at you, as it is simply a counterpoint to the apathetic tone I read from the initial paragraph. use perl; Everyone should spend some time pounding nails with their forehead for a while before they graduate to complicated stuff like hammers. - Dominus	[reply]
Re [3]: Can a Pontiff become an initiate in one night? by Intrepid (Curate) on Feb 11, 2004 at 07:45 UTC
The best way to handle something you don't like, is not to make a show about it, but rather to ignore it. This is the way the "real world" works best. I downvoted flyingmoose's node (parent to this) because I disagree strongly with it. That's how I use downvoting in the Monastery: as feedback from a reader, both to the poster and to other readers. When someone makes a contention I think is wrong (and I think this contention is not only very wrong but also incredibly dangerous in a vast, global sense), I downvote. Since I have been vociferously advocating the notion that downvoting w/o posting a reply is undesirable, I wrote this brief reason up. I feel it would have been ok for me to have not done that in this case, but in cases where it is Perl code that is the gist of the node, I feel that giving a downvote w/o posting feedback is almost never the Right Thing to do. Soren A / somian / perlspinr / Intrepid P.S. Don't forget: I am expecting all the people the people who say I am posting to Perlmonks for the XP to automatically downvote this posting w/o explanation, thanks. -- Cynicism is not "cool" or "hip" or "intelligent". It's like Saddam Hussein's piss mixed with 004 grit and nitric acid. It's corrosive to everything it touches, destructive to human endeavors, foul and disgusting. And ultimately will eat away the insides of the person who nurtures it.	[reply]