Tech Thread Flame War Cease Fire Declared (vanity)

(self) ^ | 2010-07-24 | Dayglored

[dayglored]

Jim Robinson has laid down the law with regard to tech thread flame wars.

I am motivated to make sure we tech-thread-heads are aware of this. This vanity is a heads-up with regard to Jim's comments last night, and I've added a few thoughts of my own as an observer.

Here's what Jim said:

To All: [That goes for everyone.] I don’t see any reason whatsoever to be having flamewars on FR over computer products. Those who have a problem with Apple should just not buy the product and that takes care of that. Don’t come to FR to flame those who like the product. That’s just dumb. Who cares what computer products people use.

Everyone on these threads need to lighten up! On all sides!!

I think Jim's declaration of a cease-fire is clear as a bell -- the disruption, flame wars, abusive comments, etc. that have characterized many tech threads, especially Apple threads, are to stop.

I'm sure we can all abide by this reminder of FR site policy, with no loss of meaningful content, and our enjoyment of the conversations in these threads will increase considerably. Arguments can be had civilly, and without rancor. We're adults, not 13-year-olds.

Personally, I think this applies by simple extension to the Windows threads, Linux threads, indeed any of the computer / high-tech threads. So I encourage ALL partisans, pro-Apple and anti-Apple, pro-Microsoft and anti-Microsoft, pro-Linux and anti-Linux, etc. to heed this reminder.

I am going to ping a handful of my FRiends of all tech persuasions, so that we can spread the word as widely as necessary, to ensure that nobody can claim they didn't know about it.

Here's to a saner, more enjoyable tech environment on FreeRepublic!

Thanks,
Dayglored

[MrEdd]

People who have a problem with Apple shouldn’t have bought one.

[dayglored]

>> I admit I lose my temper and post things I shouldn’t.

> Oh my...Are you now trying to claim the high road?

I didn't write what you quoted above. That was driftdiver, as I recall.

[piytar]

Yup! If you can’t hack Hex, ur a noob!

/joke

[buccaneer81]

LOL! You took me back to college in 1981!

[1rudeboy]

The only thing a conservative should ask himself (or herself) when choosing a computer is: can it play EVE Online at an adequate FPS level to keep you from losing your ship in combat?

[SamAdams76]

I was up in my attic not too long ago and came across a pristine copy of WIRED magazine from 1994. It was in excellent condition, just as when I bought it off the Barnes & Noble magazine shelf some 16 years ago.

There were articles and ads on Prodigy, Gateway 2000, UseNet, Broderbund CD-ROMs and even "Internet In A Box".

[eyedigress]

Do you have an apple thingy going on?

[Erasmus]

Or would you simply create another Civil War thread?

Something like a Civil War thread, only without the thread.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Try octal code! If you can’t hack that yer a Master Noob! LOL!

[eyedigress]

Prodigy was all that in 1993.

[Cyber Liberty]

Anybody who doesn’t use BASIC is a n00B!

You ain't usin' BASIC if you ain't rewritin' tokens.... Just sayin'

[Erasmus]

ENIAC was where it was at before Assembly Language. You had to be the man to program that machine.

True. If you were a woman, you had to use a stepstool to reach everything.

[Cyber Ninja]

28,000 year old "backspace".

IT'S Saturday?

[xp38]

you're all noobs....punch cards are it

[piytar]

Hey, I’m finally a Master at something! W00T! (Have hacked hex, never hacked octal - before my time, and I’ve seen dirt younger than me. LOL)

[Erasmus]

There is an ethernet interface and an IP stack available for it. I don’t think there is a browser, however.

[eyedigress]

Only the good looking ones.

[Riley]

Is that like really good C-4?

It has an REF of about 13, if my beer-sodden math isn't too terribly far off. It'd have a mind-bending expansion rate.

I'm having fun trying to imagine it. :-)

[eyedigress]

I don’t appreciate my SSN being displayed on FR! Dammit!

[sig226]

No fair. Does this mean that I can’t go on a PC thread and talk trash about my PC, along with all of the Microsoft products that repeatedly fail on it? ;)