Tom (and others on the thread, lurkers, etc.) I've been watching this discussion over the past day or so, on this list and CF-Talk, as well as a few others (most particularly the Church-State issues, which seem over-reactive to us Aussies, for whom this simply isn't an issue). What comes to mind is that the way people are treated and react on these lists is pretty much a factor of their own attitude. Let's take a couple of obvious cases as examples:
1. Ben Falloon, a fellow Aussie, who cops more than the average number of heated responses accepts that he has a controversial (pretty much hard-left-leaning) stand on many of the socio-political issues discussed here (Israel, globalisation, refugees, elections, etc.). But he also accepts that that stand means he wears a big target for the more moderate->right leaning members of the list, and he doesn't get worked up over it. While his discussion may be frank and often in-your-face, he's not going to get offended and slink off because someone tells him something he doesn't want to hear. 2. Tom, as the newcomer to the list you also have a view that is pretty controversial, albeit your stand isn't political. Rather, you speak from a position of concern for the industry and your business. And rightly so. However, in making his controversial comments, you seems not to want to hear views counter to your own. In fact, Tom, what I see is you getting all uppity about being informed where a thread should run (Community as opposed to Talk), and uppity again over being told by a number of folk well and truly in the know that your position, according to the current available knowledge, may well be incorrect. That said, you may well be right on the money and a few folk here may be forced to eat humble pie. Nonetheless, I don't think your position is tenable when you resort to insult and belittling of discussion participants because they disagree with you. If you didn't want open and frank discussion over your controversial post (and if you didn't understand it would be controversial, you need to think before engaging finger to keyboard), disagreement, people making counterpoint to your point and a few opinions different from your own, you shouldn't have posted in the first place. I guess what I'm saying is take a word of advice - DON'T get worked up over something that was obviously meant to cause dissention unless you are prepared to argue your point in an informed and controlled manner. If you can't manage that, take a word of Aussie advice and "pull your head in". Steve ___________________________________________________________________ | Stephen Collins, Technical Consultant - ACIS (www.acis.com.au) | | Allaire Certified ColdFusion 5 Developer | | Ph +61 2 62822662 Fax +61 2 62824328 Cel +61 410 680722 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ICQ UIN : 56321783 Yahoo! : trib | |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~oOOo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | Are you building your best Body-for-LIFE? | | www.bodyforlife.com | |___________________________________________________________________| ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
