Stan Hoeppner:
«Doing this via subterfuge simply reduces people's level of
respect for you»
«In your 10,000th attempt to generate self gratification by
demonstrating your superior knowledge (actually lack thereof)
on this list, all you could have possibly achieved here is
confusing the OP even further. I find it sad that you've
decided to prey on the young, the inexperienced, after
realizing the educated began ignoring you long ago.»
Cristoph Hellwig:
«he's made himself a name as not only beeing technically
incompetent but also extremly abrasive.»
«But please stop giving advise taken out of the thin air to
people on the lists that might actually believe whatever
madness you just dreamed up.»
Dave Chinner:
«Just ignore the troll, Stan.»
«But instead of taking the evidence-based verification path,
you've resorted to personal attacks to defend your tenuous
logic.»
«you've made a habit of this behaviour. Every discussion
thread you enter ends up with you abusing someone because they
dared to either question your assertions or didn't understand
what you said precisely.»
«you've finally reached my Intolerable Dickhead On The
Internet Threshold. Given that this is on the XFS mailing
list, and I'm the XFS Maintainer it falls to me to draw a line
in the sand: such behaviour is not acceptible in this forum.»
According to Russel Cattelan (the owner of XFS the mailing list
at least in 2012) and "other prominent members of the XFS team"
the statements I quoted above are «acceptible in this forum»:
http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-04/threads.html#00051
«[ ... ] turning the XFS mailing list in a disreputable
vehicle for offtopic and offensive flaming. This to me this
looks like mobbing, beause coordinated personal attacks have
been done by a small group of people [ ... ]»
Russell Cattelan: «You must be joking! I'm not about to ban
one of the most knowledgeable and productive xfs developers
from the email list.»
«Well, if one of these guys post offtopic and malicious rants,
I guess that his being an XFS developer should not matter.
With being an XFS developer comes also some responsibility to
maintain a technical and professional tone in the XFS mailing
list, and not to abuse his position. Same for the others.»
Russel Cattelan: «I see nothing particularly offensive about
these posts.»
«They personal attacks about competence and character. They
are pure flames, and because they are coordinated they seem to
be mobbing. To me, you seem to be expliciting endorsing the
use of the XFS mailing list to publish "ad hominem" attacks
and mobbing.»
Russel Cattelan: «I can understand you may upset about what
Christoph said he has every right to state his opinions on
things no matter how much you disagree.»
«But his opinions are on offtopic "things": the topic of the
XFS mailing list is XFS, not people's competence or character,
or rants/attacks on people. Some of the links I have sent you
contain no technical content, purely personal attacks. How can
this be legitimate XFS content?»
Russell Cattelan: «Well I'm afraid I'm going to respectfully
disagree. I don't have the full story of everything that
happened but none of the post you pointed out are totally off
topic.
There seems to be some question about what you have said
previously about XFS, which to me would seem on topic.
I have forwarded your email to Christoph and the other
prominent members of the XFS team and if they feel further
action is warranted we can revisit the issue.
Based on what you have sent I do not feel there is grounds for
action.»
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