Unacceptable aggression on CUK

[dude69]

Not a healthy attutude to take.

There is a person on this forum who is had got an interview from my current client - personally I would not entertaining doing the same for you with theh attitude you are giving to people.

Forums are often not seen as the real world. How wrong and short sighted - this is a networking arena for what we do as a living, not just some forum over a hobby.

Firstly, I choose not to network on here. I could do, but I prefer to remain anonymous and keep it for other purposes, as I do more than fine elsewhere. You don't even know what my skills are, and I don't propose on ever discussing it, or other personal information, here. I don't see networking here as particularly useful. If I wanted to network I would be better off spending my time on technical stuff, not answering questions on how to fiddle the taxman.

Secondly, I don't give people attitude on here, I have 300 posts on here which are sensible, and one flame of a single person who ignored what everyone was advising and then gave me grief for actually giving him his answer.

Finally, this thread seems to be deteriorating, but I don't see correlation between people's comments on here and their real-world attitude. We are all working in IT, and anyone that didn't learn last century that people are blunter to each other on the internet than they would be in person, then I think those people need to grow a thicker skin and realise how things work in the real world.

[dude69]

Is this your cheap attempt to discredit me to justify your own aggressive attitude on here toward newbies?

That's one of the reasons I put up this thread. To get people to think about how they come across. The last thing I would want to see is an overmoderated forum like you get on the PCG for which you are obviously a fan.

I really think you need to take time out and explain what you are talking about.

Since you are acting as The Prosecution, so to speak, could you point to a few threads - some evidence - of this aggressive attitude ?

And then people can judge for themselves what attitude it is that people are talking about. Because this seems to me to be very abstract at the moment.

[Denny]

Finally, this thread seems to be deteriorating, .

I think it's run its course as well now that its decended into personal attacks on me by PCG representatives and other trite responses to what has been posted by others. I doubt that anyone would have anything more constructive to add to it.

[Denny]

I really think you need to take time out and explain what you are talking about.

Since you are acting as The Prosecution, so to speak, could you point to a few threads - some evidence - of this aggressive attitude ?

And then people can judge for themselves what attitude it is that people are talking about. Because this seems to me to be very abstract at the moment.

Use the search button, all the information is there.

[dude69]

Use the search button, all the information is there.

so basically this was a 9 page waste of time about a single thread.

ho hum.

[chris79]

Use the search button, all the information is there.

LOL !!!!

[chris79]

Firstly, I choose not to network on here. I could do, but I prefer to remain anonymous and keep it for other purposes, as I do more than fine elsewhere. You don't even know what my skills are, and I don't propose on ever discussing it, or other personal information, here. I don't see networking here as particularly useful. If I wanted to network I would be better off spending my time on technical stuff, not answering questions on how to fiddle the taxman.

Secondly, I don't give people attitude on here, I have 300 posts on here which are sensible, and one flame of a single person who ignored what everyone was advising and then gave me grief for actually giving him his answer.

Finally, this thread seems to be deteriorating, but I don't see correlation between people's comments on here and their real-world attitude. We are all working in IT, and anyone that didn't learn last century that people are blunter to each other on the internet than they would be in person, then I think those people need to grow a thicker skin and realise how things work in the real world.

Quite a lot of contradictions in there...

"You don't even know what my skills are, and I don't propose on ever discussing it, or other personal information, here."

So the £550+vat a day you get for playing hide the soap with the local 5-a-side football team isn't classified information then is it not?

"If I wanted to network I would be better off spending my time on technical stuff, not answering questions on how to fiddle the taxman."

Why answer 'newbie' questions then?

"....I think those people need to grow a thicker skin and realise how things work in the real world." leading on to "...and one flame of a single person who ignored what everyone was advising and then gave me grief for actually giving him his answer."

Take your own advice and grow thicker skin then!


Plus...

"so basically this was a 9 page waste of time about a single thread."

Well actually no it wasn't a waste of time, I managed to compile a list of people to add to the ignore list within the forum settings under user account.


Also - - capital letter at the beginning of sentences!!

[Diver]

Quite a lot of contradictions in there...

"You don't even know what my skills are, and I don't propose on ever discussing it, or other personal information, here."

So the £550+vat a day you get for playing hide the soap with the local 5-a-side football team isn't classified information then is it not?

"If I wanted to network I would be better off spending my time on technical stuff, not answering questions on how to fiddle the taxman."

Why answer 'newbie' questions then?

"....I think those people need to grow a thicker skin and realise how things work in the real world." leading on to "...and one flame of a single person who ignored what everyone was advising and then gave me grief for actually giving him his answer."

Take your own advice and grow thicker skin then!


Plus...

"so basically this was a 9 page waste of time about a single thread."

Well actually no it wasn't a waste of time, I managed to compile a list of people to add to the ignore list within the forum settings under user account


Also - - capital letter at the beginning of sentences!!

[malvolio]

I think it's run its course as well now that its decended into personal attacks on me by PCG representatives and other trite responses to what has been posted by others. I doubt that anyone would have anything more constructive to add to it.

It's not a personal attack at all, it's a correction of incorrect information. I'm not a PCG representative, merely someone who is not going to stand by and let distortions of the truth go unchallenged. As for the PCG's moderation rules, since I wrote the original draft of them, I am not about to argue their intent here except to say that they are a lot less restrictive than the ones that went before and are predicated on people behaving like grown-ups and not hiding behind a rigid rule book.

And guess what - they actually work very well indeed, the only people that get banned are those who cannot abide by the rules of civilised discourse: even then it's for two days, conditional on them agreeing to follow the guidelines. If you were badly treated, or thought your ban was a wrong application of the Ts&Cs you could (and still can) easily appeal the decision and been heard under a defined process: that you chose not to but prefer to keep shouting about how you were unfairly banned for being the only person out of 16,000 who is allowed to be right rather blows your position out of the water, doesn't it.

And finally I think this thread has neatly proved one thing - some people are too thin-skinned to be allowed to participate in an open, anonymous forum. If you don't like the attitude, then tough - the posts are here to be read, as are the responses. It won't take much effort to work out how the board works.

[cojak]

Oh for God's sake boys, put your willies back behind your zippers.

This post needs to be put into General now, it has no value in this forum...