Going back to the Mental Hospital

[Karlos]

Cyberus wrote:

KennyR wrote:
I know a good site for mentally disturbed Amiga users.

Salisbury plain?

ROFLMAO!

Imagine the mission breifing...

Blue team - you must capture the Red teams' bunker. Live ammunition will be used in this exercise...

[Karlos]

KennyR wrote:

No use. The moment any of the blues got into red territory they'd come up against the fearsome power of The Moderators, who'd moderate them out of existence along with any proof they ever existed.

I dunno, some kind of subversion might work :-)

Meanwhile both sides will be waylaid by the black team, who will attempt to sucker them with lifesize anthromoprhised cartoon felines with distinctly feminine curves :lol:

[Karlos]

KennyR wrote:
Wayne, Amiga.org is not the site I meant.

Edit: As for constant whining, I have only once complained about the moderation of this site, and then it was only via PM to a moderator. I think you have me confused with someone else. Pot calling kettle black in regards to whining, methinks.

Perhaps he just meant your usual happy go lucky attitude to virtually everything in general ;-)

(joke)

-edit-

That said, Wayne's point is still valid. Whichever site you are referring to, nobody is forcing you to use it. If you dont like the site, don't go there - especially if the site is geared towards any of the platforms other than the one you use.

[Karlos]

@JonoPike

Wear a nasty mixture of nylon, cotton, polyester etc. and roll around the carpet for a bit before doing a runner. The static build up will fettle that pesky id chip.

Unfortunately, cunning as this plan is, it has the principal downside that you will look a total ****...

[Karlos]

Easy to say, easy to do. I find MacOSX a totally overrated, massively hyped product that mac users never stop raving about like its better than sex.

Yet I find it irritating in the extreme. Its more zealously conformist than windows even. Try customising the interface to your own personal taste. Like getting rid of that eyestrain scanlines texture or brushed metal (neither of which are consistently applied throughout the system), or changing the global text highlight colours to be inverted for selected text etc. Or disabling annoying and ultimately useless excess animation in the GUI. In short, you can't. You are forced to accept Apples definition of what is cool and funky, like it or not. The only chance you have is to go in manually and edit a bunch of plist files.

But these are my personal opinions and I don't need to express it on various MacOS community sites, {bleep} about it and tell them AmigaOS is superior, get moderated and then complain about it on other sites.

[Karlos]

KennyR wrote:

Yes, I'm sure such mindless optimism, self-delusion and name-focus is natural and forms the psychological buildup of every human being.

Probably drinking too much tapwater ;-)

For the record, I think the amigaworld.net people are generally quite optimistic about their system of choice. Then so are the morphzone folk. But neither are obsessively optimistic - there are a few highly vocal zealots on each side and a relatively quiet majority of normal users.

Seeing the way you lump together and deride the entire community base of a site puts you visibly at the former end of the spectrum. It also appears you can't even address the fact that you insult so many people in such a fashion without further derision.

[Karlos]

...so why make them moderators?

So why attack the users if the moderators are the people you have an issue with?

If you think I'm being obsessive, then go ahead and think that. This long ago got personal, and if I can't strike against the blatant and obvious lies posted on that site (often by from the people employed directly in the companies involved), then I'm sure I'll find other ways to protest. If I can do it with subtlety, I will, but since Wayne thought I meant him and destroyed that, I'll resort to stridency.

And insinuating the users are all mental achieves this?

Either way, I get my point across.

But you don't get your point across (at least with your initial remark), that's the problem. You just end up looking like a petty tosspot taking cheap shots at users who frequent another site. Many of whom also frequent this and other sites.

If you think there is a deliberate smear campaign going on, then sure, discuss it away. But don't just slag off the ordinary users, it's contemptible.

[Karlos]

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I can tell which site you mean simply because (1) it's already been pointed out and (2) this is not the first time you have made such remarks about it or its userbase. Whilst I accept your issue is with the site and how it is run, I don't think it justifies your attack on the userbase.

You are entitled to your views on this and any other issues, but I do wish you'd excercise some degree of restraint before liberally tarring everybody in any particular group you have issues with with the same brush.

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I mean, how would you feel if MOS users made such a site and set up all the most extreme of them as moderators, spread lies about OS4, and simply moderated or shouted out anyone who contested them?

Personally, I wouldn't care a less - which I thought would have been obvious from my stance thus far. I simply wouldn't bother with such a site and nor would I regard its views as typical of the average MorphOS user.

The whole Red v Blue thing is a complete farce IMHO. The only potential benefit it has is that each platform will strive harder to produce a better product than they would otherwise achieve without the competition.