Jonathan has the patience of a saint in answering people like you. I don't. I am not 10 years old and have no interest in this sort of discussion. Grow up!
On 4/27/06, Daniel Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please forgive me for feeding the trolls and wasting bandwidth. I > know, it makes me no better than they are and this apology is > meaningless since I am going to keep doing it for a little while. > ....but they are just such cute little trolls with those adorable > nicknames and tiny perspectives! Seriously, how can you expect anyone > to resist those?! :) > > Besides, it is a slow morning for me, and I do not feel like just > lurking as usual. :) I will understand if you all think less of me > for this utterly juvenile email. I think less of me too. Today is > not a good self-control day. :( > > On 4/27/06, Dakota Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > People do not do "work" around here because it is not rewarded. > > The people who are rewarded are political. Then they do the work and > the > > work looks like coding by politicians. > > Congratulations, that is the stupidest thing I have heard all week! > You should be rewarded for being so political! Or did you not know > that playing the opposition means you are a politician too? > > > I can remember going into the > > file upload section and seeing one of the worst messes I have ever > > seen in an open source project. There are hanging references and > > other monstrosities that I had only seen community college class > > assignments prior to looking at Struts code. I could not even discuss > > the code much less have any hope of helping, because the committers > > use this for their work and are not amenable to good code but rather > > to code that advances their careers. > > Then why are you here? Why do you care if not because you love the > politics? Admit it, you are just jealous that you are not on the > Struts PMC. Come on, a little self-awareness will not hurt. I > promise. > > > If you think that Jonathan or I have nothing to contribute, you are > > sadly mistaken. > > Awesome! I love being called "sadly mistaken". That is so witty and > eloquent! Now if only i could be called that by a truly famous troll > like Mr. Revusky (there's a little ego stroke for you, JR), my life > would be complete. > > But anyway, it is nice of you to "read my mind" and all, but all I was > trying to communicate was that Jonathan and myself had not done any of > the work around here. I did not say anything about you or anyone's > ability to contribute. (Though I think it is cute that you wanted to > be in on the action. :) > > > We are quite aware of the nature of this beast. You > > really need to pay attention to what is going on. There is nothing > > like a meritocracy around here. > > (In unworthy imitation of the inimitable Bill Cosby) ......right. > > > How do you think that Struts 1.x > > managed to become a plate of spaghetti after such a fine start? > > Well, I do not think that. I know that seems odd to you, but I > actually lurk on this list because I think Struts 1.x was a decently > constructed ham and cheese sandwich. I am also excited to see it > turning into a delicious BLT with the introduction of WebWork as SAF > 2. > > > Mertiocracy does not mean just work, by the way. It means work with > > merit. This not sold as a "docracy" or "actcracy". > > This is the second stupidest thing I have heard all week. Thank you > for sharing! > > > Get a clue. > > A clue? Like the board game? I love board games! Would you like to > play a game of "Sorry"? CandyLand is fun too. > > Daniel Warner, > lead time waster and troll feeder > (for today only, I promise I will go back to lurking tomorrow!) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~
