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[2020-12-25 22:18:22 UTC -- Corrected typo (with thanks to maxwell demon) --martyb]
[2020-12-25 21:32:03 UTC -- Updated with staff info and reformatted the story. --martyb]
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(Score: 5, Touché) by Phoenix666 on Saturday December 26 2020, @06:36AM (1 child)
If you don't put your own time, your own reputation, and your own neck on the line with your criticisms, then your intent is not to improve but to destroy. An honest critic would pony up his time to serve a term as an editor, to improve what he sees as deficient editing. But you don't. You only complain. That there is proof positive that you have no positive intent.
It's a common tactic used to destroy open communities such as this. Complain until the people of good will who built it and maintain it quit.
But here's why we can't let you succeed, and why we have to tell you to stuff it: if we stop having places like this where we can talk to people whose world views we find objectionable, then we have to fight for real. Moreover, I learn so much tech from people whose political views make my skin crawl. I suspect I'm not alone in that. When the partisan tide ebbs and people talk tech, I learn so much that helps me in my work and in the real world.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2020, @04:18PM
And when it is said to them,
"Cause not disorders in the earth:"
they say,
"Nay, rather do we set them right."
Is it not that they are themselves
the authors of disorder?
But they perceive it not.
Qur'an 2:11-12 (Rodwell translation)