You say it’s idealism. There is nowhere in evidence proof that everyone getting along is an ideal. I’ve said a dozen times in a dozen ways, I’d rather be the target of f-bombs accompanied with useful code that helps me pay my bills than be the happy acquaintance of a genial hacker who contributes nothing at any time to my work. One is difficult but rewarding. The other is easy but meaningless.

I’m not here to make friends; at all. The strange part about that is, because of it, I have made a handful of friends here. Monks I like quite a lot and would gladly, oh, I don’t know, say, host at my home or support in a time of need.

This stuff, to me, is thought-police, social-cop, lowest-common-denominator, safe-space nonsense and in North America it’s reached a critical mass that backfired in delicious, if double-sided, schadenfreude in November. The only times I’m actively rude on this site is when I’m told I should be disallowed the right and even the judgement of what is or isn’t appropriate social interaction.

Trolls, anti-social folks, don’t give a rodent’s rectum about this sort of appeal. So it’s either preaching to the choir or stirring the normally well-settled feces. Consider that there are plenty of helpful, friendly, forgiving, patient monks who might find either a little irksome and that the moment the troll starts a flame war, the troll’s already won.

In reply to Re: Yet Another Appeal for Civility by Your Mother
in thread Yet Another Appeal for Civility by perldigious

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