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To: general_re
Guess what?

My, my. I have seem to have hit a real nerve with you, General... was it because I quantified the invasion of Mac threads? Was it that ANYONE reading comments like "I'd get a Mac but I'm not Gay", "Macmoonies" and " Macs are for simple minded idiots who can't handle a real computer." that pepper threads for both platforms will make a value judgement that those are intended as personal insults to users of the Macintosh computer?

I documented the fact that while Mac users do occasionally post in threads relating to Windows, seldom hijacking them, that Windows users like you, post in Mac threads and frequently hijack them! When I find that almost 15% of the comments in Mac threads are pro-Windows at best or insults at worst compared to a mere 3.5% of the comments in a Windows thread are pro-Mac and that you DON'T find anywhere near the degree of insulting language coming from the Mac users toward the Windows users as you do vice-verse, then I think a conclusion as to who hijacks who can be drawn... and it isn't Mac users in most cases.

185 posted on 04/27/2005 8:12:32 AM PDT by Swordmaker (tagline now open, please ring bell.)
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To: Swordmaker

When I find that 88% of recent threads on a particular Microsoft topic have been jumped on by the "Get a Mac!" crew, that says to me that they have no business complaining about threads being "invaded". I'm sorry, I know that minority victim status has some attractiveness to it, but the reality is that there's plenty of give and take on all sides. Nobody's innocent here, and that's a fact.


186 posted on 04/27/2005 9:38:27 AM PDT by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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