So much butthurt. Where to begin?
Your quantity of posts in the thread is not the point; it isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
How about *actually reading* them this time? And I mean, reading them all, not just mine! Especially read the posts and the discussion threads to which I'm responding to! Watch how the thread evolves. Look how people contributes. What they are saying. It takes many people to move a discussion forward, not just one, not just "TMHG" (with his massive 18 posts).
I have done, very carefully. Anybody that has been on this forum any length of time knows it's very rare for me to single people out, the fact that you are an exception to this should actually make you stop for a moment and wonder why. Of course you can't, because you're too busy feeling exasperated at it to realise.
You can't even take responsibility for your "contribution" without pointing out how many other people were doing it. And yet, you overlook one blindingly obvious point.
Anyone not completely blind will see that *my* contribution to those threads were *very minor* in comparison to other people's posts. Yet I'm getting 100% of the blame, for some problem that *I'm not even sure exists* outside a few peoples brains?
It is true that in that thread, other people got stuck in just as excitedly, but the point is that the thread was fine until
you started going on about why the OP should use MorphOS instead, totally ignoring the polite request by the original poster not to. Which, ultimately, invited all the other trolls to come out of the woodwork and start a fight. You can't even claim you weren't aware of his older MOS thread as you posted in that one too, before posting in his OS4 thread.
Cause and consequence. I think you'll find most people understand the concept.
And as for your 18 posts, well, anybody reading that thread can judge for themselves, and if they are bored enough, perhaps they will. Except for the first few, they don't make pleasent reading. For all your protestation about red trolls, the huge irony here that in this thread you've basically behaved in exactly the same fashion you accuse said red trolls of. Complaining about having to defend your choice of OS from the nasty linux trolls that you expect to find only on slashdot having done exactly the same thing to fellow amiga enthusiasts right here on this very forum for simply preferring an alternative OS. And a final irony, here you are complaining at the unfair singling out, and what do you do in your defence? Single out someone else.
And what's even more disturbing, is the fact that you obviously has *spent time* and *quite a few posts* here in this very thread, with the only purpose of "retaliating", "teaching a lesson" etc. Are you trying to "get even"? On *ME*? A vindictive behavior I would have expected from some of the users on AW.net or amigans.net, not from an official moderator of Amiga.org. Why? Disturbed indeed
I didn't spend any time, I just remembered that particular thread from before. Again, an irony being that I might not have, had you not have started the e-pine rubbing over G5 in this one
Did someone tell you to do this? Who?
Paranoid, much? No. What, I can't have my own opinions?
I happen to think you behaved hypocritcally, having bashed OS4 and it's users in a thread opened regarding OS4, to the point of goading "cry foul! moderators! make the arguments go away!" (or some such nonsense) and then cry like a toddler in a tantrum when it is pointed out to you that MOS on G5 offers nothing that it doesn't offer on G4 and that the few things that will run better on G5 will run far better on an x86 with linux, since invariably, that's where the software was ported from anyway. Boo hoo, somebody presented an argument that wouldn't go away. For shame.
Had you not have played the "I can't believe an amiga enthusiast has to defent his choice of OS here on amiga.org" card, this exchange probably would not have happened.
So, really, nobody to blame but yourself.
I can't say I had expected an apology. But that comment, rubbing salt in the wounds, made my regards for you vanish completely!
Gone!
I'm sorry to say it, but frankly I don't much care. I'm not going to lose any sleep whatsoever over it, I suggest you shouldn't either.
The original poster in that thread got put off OS4 and MOS thanks to the debacle you helped to create. I can't say I blame him one bit, the whole red v blue thing almost put me off the entire Amiga scene for good too.
Luckily, having to read your posts hasn't put me off the MOS2 option yet. Carry on though, you never know your luck.
Now, I'd rather not continue this conversation since it's not really doing anything for the thread. In fact, I should probably split it out.
