Frankly, I don't particularly mind Shiv's posts. From where I sit, he's only trolling about half the time. The rest of the time he's merely expressing his views. I may not agree with him, but so what?
In any case, what's interesting about always talking to people who agree with you? I kinda miss Arsalan Zaidi, for those of you who remember. On the other hand, I rather object to hidden agendas, sock puppets and similar weirdness. -- b On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote: > In other words, screw the right wing trolling, the pseud-intellectual > trolling etc etc etc? > > Fully agree. > > Shiv, Anand, if you guys have any sort of remotely useful point to make > in periodically winding people up with chaddiwala and chomsky arguments > please do enlighten us. Else, start making the effort to talk about > some damned thing other than your favorite hobby horses, kthxbai. > > On Saturday 06 August 2011 10:21 AM, Biju Chacko wrote: >> Y'know: >> >> After this latest (of a series) episode it's becoming increasingly >> difficult to assume the goodwill of posters who I don't know for sure >> are real people. >> >> As it is, the tone and level of discourse on silk has changed over the >> years. A few years ago, it felt like the conversation of people who >> knew and respected each other, now it often feels like the impersonal, >> points scoring discussions of dozens of other mailing lists and news >> groups scattered around the 'net. >> >> If this place is also going to become the focus of people's silly >> intellectual games, I'm afraid I'm not going to work up the enthusiasm >> to spend my copious free time on it. >> >> If we want to continue to have intelligent conversations here it may >> be time for us add a other rule: "Do unto others as you would have >> done to you." >> >> -- b >> > >
