A question of manners
Sep. 6th, 2006 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Been a bunch of nonsense back and forth, both in private SFWA internet discussion groups and in a (non-LJ) blog, about copying and posting stuff in a public place -- that blog -- that was spoken (written) in a private group*.
As far as I'm concerned, this represented a _major_ violation of good manners. Totally boorish. The person took "private" conversations -- ignore questions of Internet security, of which there remains damned little -- and published them. Private conversations in which he did not even take part. As far as I can recall or discover, the person had _never_ taken part in conversations in that group. A lurker.
Two, three hundred years ago, the person would have been challenged to about a dozen duels.
*SFWA members only, password required.
As far as I'm concerned, this represented a _major_ violation of good manners. Totally boorish. The person took "private" conversations -- ignore questions of Internet security, of which there remains damned little -- and published them. Private conversations in which he did not even take part. As far as I can recall or discover, the person had _never_ taken part in conversations in that group. A lurker.
Two, three hundred years ago, the person would have been challenged to about a dozen duels.
*SFWA members only, password required.
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Date: 2006-09-06 10:07 pm (UTC)Seriously though, does any of it matter? You've already said that you don't do cons and you don't like H.E. so does it really matter to you what he does at a con? Unless that woman was your wife, mother, or sister, it's between them. Either she'll press charges or she won't. I'm guessing this latest drama is somehow related, but isn't it starting to just wear on you? Aren't you getting bored with spending your real time being mad over internet events? Essentially, you're mad at a name on a screen. Sure, somewhere they're real people but not in your reality.
You! Bike ride! Burn off that adrenaline and stress.
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Date: 2006-09-06 10:33 pm (UTC)And the controversy isn't FITB -- it's more like Son of FITB.
Good to hear from you -- not washed out to sea in the Ernesto deluge.
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Date: 2006-09-07 02:50 pm (UTC)