> When somebody steps on your feet deliberately what do you do? Certainly > you will not say "Thank you hit again"!
> > He is not showing off his status. He is venting frustration that many > > in the community feel. Many of the long and loud threads on this list > > over the last little while have been pointless fights... > Zak, Derick started it by turning this thread into a pointless fight as > you say. he just said what he was thinking about your mail. you didnt accept that critic > > You defend yourself so vigorously and take offense so quickly that > > people have trouble relating to you. > If and when you ever be faced by misunderstanding and bias against you, > you will understand me. maybe youre paranoid? > > [cut] > > > It was not intended, but now you have to face the justice or Mr. Net cop > > > Derick. > > Actually I don't - in fact, I don't recall ever having been troubled by > > those who disagree with you. I am probably the least adept of the people > > actively involved with the development effort and I make a lot of mistakes > > and foolish suggestions, yet no one troubles me... > Sorry, when I said "you" I mean somebody that could be me or anybody > that has to put up with a net cop like person, not that it will happen > to you. Everyone working on net meets a "net cop" one day, but believe, derick is no net cop. > > > Just to relax, you know that 4 years ago I wrote a book named something > > > that would be translated as "Being on the Internet". I have one chapter > > > that talks about typical behaviours that the Internet make outstand in > > > users. One of the described behaviours is what I called the "Net Cop". > > > It is that guy that thinks of himself of a big shot that knows all and > > > is going to fix the world by repressing others. Derick just reminded me > > > of a Net Cop. Anyway, I tend to understand people like him, because as I > > > explained in the book, usually people just repress others because they > > > are or at least were repressed by others in the past. Despite they hated > > > it, they just do the same and repress others with shouting at them with > > > public messages to try to humilliate them, just like Derick tried. Never > > > mind, nothing that some good analysis sessions would not solve! :-) > > Manuel, you are very intelligent and have the benefit of being older than > > many of us on the list - why can't you identify your own behavior in the > > bad things that you attribute to others? > I was attacked and I feel that I have the right to respond to protect me > from being humilliated by kids like Derick that have to intention > respect me. see my other mail. dont take this as attack, understand why derick is writing that. dont blame it on derick, try to find out what YOU did wrong. > > I believe that you are a net cop. Derick certainly is not - I somewhat am > So, you did not what understand (or I was not able to explain) what a > net cop is. A net cop is just a person that voluntarily sits that and > try to police people just to nailed them sometimes imposing public > humilliation. That is what Derick did by his own initiative. Regardless > if he or anybody liked my response, he should not forget that was just a > reaction to his attact to my person. so in your view everyone who says something negative about you, even if he is just criticizing, he is a net cop? everyone not agreeing with you is a big bad net cop? wake up! > Actually I find more valuable the people that have the guts to speak up > what they think, even if they defy my points of view, rather than stay > quite in the background boycotting my initiatives. lol just my 2 cents regards, Peter Petermann -- Homepage: www.cyberfly.net PHP Usergroups: www.phpug.de - [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHP Infos: www.php-center.de - [EMAIL PROTECTED] VL-SRM Homepage: www.vl-srm.net - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
