My Apologies, Arch Linux Community
kensai — Fri, 05/23/2008 - 11:08
Well, I'm going to talk about the locked thread in the Arch Linux forums, which got locked because of me. I have to say, one needs to live by his own rules and never break them, that's what happened to me, I went on talking about immaturity and all of a sudden in my latest post on that forum thread I just showed nothing more but immaturity. Well, maybe I was blinded by the personal attacks I received by the poster of the article referenced on that thread. Some times we humans make mistake and let our feelings drive how we act and what we say. In our ambition to criticize what we see wrong in others we often take the wrong path ourselves and become blinded as to the ways of our own attitudes.
I want to say I'm sorry to all the Arch Linux community because the discussion might have continued along and be interesting. Also to the forum moderators for the fact that I used the forums to defend myself, a thing which is not so smart, because if I have a problem with someone I should just face that person directly. I do assure you guys, I will make my best to make sure this doesn't happen again, and I'm sure it won't. So, again I offer my apologies.
PS: WOW, it is so hard to write about one mistakes, since we have to dig deep into ourselves to see all our faults.
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Don't worry!
Aaron Griffin (not verified) — Fri, 05/23/2008 - 12:30Don't worry man, we all understand 8)
We're good
Kenny (not verified) — Fri, 05/23/2008 - 13:10We're all friends here... and we will not point fingers at you and laugh..
OK.. the second statement was a lie...
JK ;)
We all lose our heads time after another
KimTjik (not verified) — Fri, 05/23/2008 - 18:31To acknowledge errors is a strength; stubbornly denying them is a weakness. Hence you're now even stronger!
Been there, done that... my sympathies and support.
(The spam control makes me a spammer; +5 times and still struggling)
Don't worry about it
foxbunny (not verified) — Sat, 05/24/2008 - 23:22I don't know why Cerebral picked your post out of all those more-or-less hostile posts out there (probaby just wording), but let me tell ya, that GPL troll is indeed stupid, and you've called right. Just because someone is 'intelligent' doesn't make him smart, you know. As you saw, people can be highly intelligent, and still be stupid enough to disregard the very thing they are supposedly defending.
To the rest of the Arch community:
Kensai might not be our best writer here, but what hi so plainly wrote is not a bit worse than what you with superior English skills were able to disguise with your rethoric. You should be ashamed of pretending to not see that. I'm mostly disgusted by hypocrisy in our camp rather than that troll you were discussing.
p.s.
Kensai, please don't make me do maths, man. I'm begging you!
HAHA
kensai — Sun, 05/25/2008 - 13:09I might not be the best writer but I am the best newsletter author there is on the Linux scenario. :D Anyways, thanks for your support, as to the topic of Cerebral, I have to admit I got mad at him at first, but then I realized is not his fault, it was all mine.
PS: I am planning to implement high level calculus problems for the captcha thing. LOL
In for some more maths...
foxbunny (not verified) — Mon, 05/26/2008 - 11:53I didn't have Cerebral in mind (well, not only him), but some other members, both here in these comments and there in the thread. If some lunatic attacks a member of our community, and you let that cloud your judgment, that's not good.
As for other (imho comparably insulting) opinions, here's the list:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=370050#p370050
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=370068#p370068
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=370133#p370133
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=370259#p370259
and so on, I don't have time to waste on making the complete listing.
So I ask again. Why was Kensai in particular the cause of locking? And what I especially didn't like is the comment that was posted before the lock, when a simple PM would suffice, not the lock per se.
I had to prove myself
kensai — Mon, 05/26/2008 - 16:33That's how I see it, I got an opportunity to prove myself, what I really am, what I would do in a such a situation. I see your points are more than valid, but well, I don't want to blame anyone here, maybe I got picked up because I was the least expected to act like I did. Well, is OK for me if I have to roll by higher standards after all I am the Arch Linux Newsletter Author. Thanks for the way you are trying to help me, I really like how it feels when you know you have friends.
I'd always expect...
foxbunny (not verified) — Mon, 05/26/2008 - 18:29...a reaction like that from you. You have a big, big mouth. But you're an honest guy, and I respect that more than good manners or whatever the hell other people may like in others.
Offtopic, but, where did you
Anonymous (not verified) — Wed, 06/04/2008 - 18:40Offtopic, but, where did you get this awesome wordpress theme? (I assume it's wordpress)...
Directed at the author of
Anonymous (not verified) — Wed, 06/04/2008 - 18:41Directed at the author of this post, not the second comment above me...
Not wordpress...
kensai — Thu, 06/05/2008 - 11:59This is Drupal. I like Drupal a bit more since it is much more KISS than wordpress and just feels better. But well, has a steep learning curve.