AmigaOS 4.0 makes Wired News!

[KennyR]

redrumloa wrote:
Follow the link to aw.net, some people there are slamming Nate and apparently sending hate mail to Wired for posting his coment.

Pathetic, but not really surprising. I'm just glad all the loons got concentrated in one site, after the rest of the Amiga sites refused to be unfair and unbalanced.


"Discipline 2: [Selective Trolling Competition]
React to as many as possible of even the most slightly negative statements about OS4, Amiga Inc or Hyperion with foam-mouthed fury bordering on apoplexy, and call even far more technically knowledgeable people than you 'trolls' when they point out obvious stuff, like "OS4 won't be available this year.""

[KennyR]

Tell me Tomas, how is this worse than Alan Redhouse's comments that the Pegasos was deliberately being underpriced to destroy Eyetech?

Another case of selective memory syndrome?

[KennyR]

Tomas wrote:
I never heard about that, but indeed this is wrong too, if this is infact true. I really still doubt that Alan posted this to a public news site, as Genesi here did...

He said it, in person, and it was recorded into mpg for everyone to watch and listen.

And Genesi did not post this. Nate Downes did. There is a world of difference.

And you can't hurt Amiga by posting the truth. If the truth hurts Amiga, then hurting it is unavoidable except by lying.

It is not even fact! AmigaOS4 was never promised for 2003 afaik....

It was. Several times.

[KennyR]

Rogue wrote:
It's great to see you call people with different opinions "loons". It's just exemplary for your hypocritical self-rightousness.

Lando said it better than I ever could. Hypocritical self-righteousness is pretty much a signature for AW, so you sure do have a nerve.

You could go over there and try to start a sensible discussion, but you prefer to call them "loons" from a distance.

I prefer to only visit places where other opinions rather than the official line are tolerated. Besides which, some AW forums are silly. Really, they are. AW can be simultaneously laughable and creepy. Creepy because nobody seems to challenge totally stupid posts - probably for fear of being labelled a troll. Anyway, what good would it do.

I mean, maybe if someone actually TRIED to ask Fleecy a MEANINGFUL question or looked constructively at Amiga matters, it might help - but there's no way to do that at AW. Its bubble of alternate reality is just maintained far too well.

This whole Nate Downes thing is just absolutely indicitive of the reputation AW now has - and has earned. I see they're busy setting him up as the next antichrist. Farewell to reality.

[KennyR]

Rogue wrote:
Regardless of what you might think about the moderators or their style of moderation, it doesn't give you the right to call all that go there "loons"...

That's right. Which is why I didn't say that. AW may be a focal point for these types, but it's a stretch to say they're all like that. I know they're not. And it's AW's own fault that some are. It encourages such behaviour with its bizarre moderation style and can hardly complain when their efforts bear the fruit they wanted.

Yeah, "don't feed the trolls unless they speak in the opposite direction". Do you really think that this wouldn't happen on morphos-centered site? Be honest.

Ok, to be honest: it never actually comes up. MorphOS-centered sites don't discuss Amiga 'politics'. They discuss things related to MorphOS. If you're saying that AmigaWorld wants to be like that for OS4, maybe it should be renamed AmigaOS4World?

If "that Nate Downes thing" is indicative for Aw.net, then your calling a general group of people "loons" just because they visit and frequent a certain web site...So it all boils down to the reasoning "They are loons because I know they are"?

No, I call them loons because they are. I don't really care what OS, hardware or site they chose. They're adults. It's the "GENSEI SI LAME!!!!1 it is so funny", the "Petition to get Doom3 ported to OS5, that would be GREAT!!!!!" kind of stuff that gets them their loony label. Even if you looked outside the community for views with no 'blue bias', they'd probably still think these people were ravening crazies. What 'kind' of people do you think these would be? Self-righteous? Or just sensible?