Fleecy Moss Q&A Week 4

[SlimJim]

@Wayne
 
The fact is that there are plenty of people visiting
amiga.org than are not visiting amigaworld. You always
said your goal was to support the community. A very
noble cause. Well, perhaps there is a part of this
community that wishes to be informed of these Q&A
sessions (or, indeed there might be people only visiting
amiga.org irregularily and never heard of them but really
would be interested if they knew) So what if it takes an extra 'click' to
read them? For the majority of us, those of us who really
ARE in those middle 60% you talked about some time ago,
it's a service to get informed of the stuff that might
actually be of some interest [to some].
 
It is your website. You do whatever you like with it. But
please be honest about it - You dislike these harmless
weekly links for two reasons: Your old problems with
fleecy and your hatred of Mike Bouma. You are entitled to
those opinions of course, but please consider also that
you have more power than the regular Amigan as the
webmaster of one of the largest Amiga newssites. Your
influence matters. But with power also come a burden of
accepted responsibity. And in this, your latest hardened
attitude, you are NOT helping the community in any way.
 
@all
Set up a Q&A session with someone more interesting than
fleecy if you are so disturbed by him answering ten
bloody questions a week. Or if you really want his input,
but feel amigaworld is only feeding him 'nice' questions,
set up a Q&A session of your own, right here on amiga.org
(or elsewhere). I would read it, most definately. It's my
hobby (note the non-deadly-serious implication) to
keep an eye on the small Amiga world, after all.
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SlimJim

[SlimJim]

Honestly, Amiga.org's going to be fine one way or another, no matter what Fluffy Fleecy says. I still believe we are the most viewed Amiga news site, and I don't think that will change no matter how many useless Q and A sessions he posts at other sites. I remember back when AO was in AI's "good graces" and that certainly didn't have any effect on us, either.

 
Are you saying that you are feeling betrayed somehow
that fleecy is posting his answers to amigaworld.net and
not to amiga.org? Do you think he would have refused had
you thought of this Q&A thing first?
 
As it is,  it's quite obvious the staff of amiga.org care little
about what AInc has to say. I don't see why
another site's staff thinking this MIGHT be interesting
after all, is anything to be upset about. And like the
interviews conducted by other sites, it's a happening
some in the community might be interested in hearing
about. At least, this is certainly nothing to blame AInc for
at least (for once)?
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SlimJim

[SlimJim]

You are discounting the FACT that the only reason he is saying ANYTHING right now is that he wanted to work with Mike Bouma/Luca Diana/(ACCM?) to try and undermine Amiga.org and snag it's more zealotous members for their own use.

 
I'm sorry, but I don't know this "FACT". In fact, this is the
first time I have heard of this. But if this is how you
regard the situation, I can understand your aversity.
Indeed, if this is really  the reason for the questions to be
answered (as opposed to the more obvious reason that
AW simply asked fleecy first), it would be bad (and
childish) indeed.
 
For now, I'll just apply the wisdom of Occam though...
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SlimJim

[SlimJim]

It saddens me to hear this, Wayne.
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SlimJim

[SlimJim]

> Well thought if not emotional post, but you do realize the
> fact that Amiga Inc has absolutely zero to do with either
> AmigaOS or the AmigaOne, right?
 
This is an odd statement considerering that noone would
have been able to start neither the AmigaOne project (at
least not as an Amiga computer), and *definately* not
AmigaOS4 at all had not AInc been willing to let it
happen. Now, you can perhaps discuss the reasons
for AInc to allow AOS to be further developed - fair
enough. But the fact remains that they by extension have
very much to do with at least AOS4. Claiming they have
nothing at all to do with this system coming back into life
is simply ignoring a link in the logic chain.
..............

 
Look, I'm not all that happy about the decisions and
actions taken by AInc in the past either. I have stated
this. Repeating it over and over won't make my opinion
weigh any heavier, won't make me or anyoone else feel
any better. Rather, I'd only make others depressed.
 
You see, I have nothing to loose by showing AInc a little
patience. I have a beefy PC here - and a nice A4000/060 to
support it. I prefer not to bring up the negatives over and
over again (and I apply the same policy to
MOS/Genesi/Amithlon/x86/whatever), since there is
nothing to gain in that for me but flames and an
overall bad mood in the community. I have everything to
loose by repeatedly bringing up only the bad points all the
time - not only will AInc/Genesi/whomever stop listening (I
know I would), the noice of negativity I'll add might also
be just that little last drop of irritation that pushes that
long-time Amiga user into leaving this community forever.
And for me, that matters more than the short-term
satisfaction of repeatedly making witty sarcastic
comments to drive the same negative point home over
and over - even if I feel that I am right in my opinions.
It is a difficult lesson of maturity to learn when not to
repeat your viewpoint.
 
(...so I'd better shut up now! ;-) )
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SlimJim