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On Jan 28, 8:36 pm, " wrote: On Jan 28, 11:44 am, John Smith I wrote: wrote: ... JS, I dunno. You have to recall that for the very longest time (and still) there has been prejudice against No-Code Technicians. They are "stupid, lazy, knuckledraggers with southern accents, welfare mothers of color with their hands out, etc, etc, etc." [and those were the least derogatory comments! :-) ] You gotta wonder which of the regulars are/were posting anonymously. Really hair-brained stuff. Only recently have people questioned the megalomania of certain Extras, their need to have a government crutch to maintain their self- worth and status, etc. [Okay, I'm not a "people"...I was saying that years ago :-)] Yep, without naming names... So just as the sword began to cut both ways... What you won't be able to get to in this "judge ideas, and take posts at face value" is the motivations of individuals who present ideas, and make posts at face value. For example, we will never know why people would eat Robesin's excrement, only that he says they do. HHAC: Yes, there is "prejudice" and it has been there a long, long time, I kinda of like the ncts though (no code techs.) I think they may be individuals who have no talent for code, are busy supporting a family and use more of their time paying bills and medical expenses, more than anything else--yes, paul and his bunch call them names ... I haven't seen that from Paul. I agree but only part way. Schleck's explanations word it as if there was "never" any moderator activity anywhere else and his Usenet-Internet group is the "only" group that can handle it. That is, to put it most delicately, utter cow-flop. The BBSs were beginning to go national in networking in the early 1980s and hundreds of BBS Sysops were having to MODERATE thousands of users and subscribers. Their executive (main computer) software was already designed with Moderator's Controls to effect that moderation. I was there. I saw it. I used it. I've even talked to two different BBS software writer- designers. I've been a moderator on three different BBSs. Apparently that doesn't "count." quizical look Not of academia (despite having macadmias) I am brushed aside. It SEEMS to be the usual academic NIT syndrome. It SEEMS like only THEY (the academics) have the "smarts" to do it. The usual brush-aside is mentioning USENET out of ARPANET, supposedly all academic institutions. Actually no, both involved BOTH academia and corporations involved in defense work as well as instrumentation makers. Tsk, I was there on ARPANET for a short while, on USENET for a short while. Be damned if I ever saw any "moderation" on either many years ago. :-( I'm disturbed that there was little or no discussion, and suddenly we have a "solution," complete with with a list of moderators that no one has ever heard of, nevermind that they are all Extras. And, yes, EXTRA class license holders tend to think of that paper as a doctor degree--but, a doctorate degree in what, a darn hobby? It isn't ... When I see a ham behaving badly, it doesn't surprise me when I learn that the ham is an Extra. That isn't to say that all Extras behave badly. It's almost a truism that the visible percentage of voluble amateur extras in here are that way. They wound so easily, the poor dears. They wouldn't be good moderators. Skin too thin. KH2D for example. I consider him a friend. Most of the hams that I've agreed with and disagreed with on RRAP could be a friend should I ever meet them in person. There are several who I think are dangerous. By example of early DeJaVu archives (now Google's), Jim Kehler was, in my honest opinion, one of the WORST of the sarcastic, arrogant, in-your-face sort in his postings to me. He could be "grumpy" in person, too. I'm sorry if that bothers you, Brian, but this target of his frustrations and sarcasm didn't much like him. I classify Cranky Spanky as a junior grade sissy version of Kehler. Too bad Cranky was never stuck on Guam for years...he would have loved being where all the comms to the rest of the world were by HF. He couldn't have handled the pileups. Wonder if Cranky has ever taken up golf? :-) "They" built a big golf course on Guam. Seems it is cheaper to fly to Guam for a weekend of golf than to pay greens fees in Japan. Anyway, they needed a lot of sand for the constructions, and brought a barge load of it from China. Welp, in China, any flowing water is considered a mechanism of taking care of waste. The sand they dredged was full of e-coli, and this was deposited over our freshwater well... I think after all the nicey-nice backslapping on the moderated group, they'll get sick of hearing the same-o, same-o from their cloned bretheren and be back on RRAP to hear what thinking people have to say. HAR! Beautiful, Brian. :-) They will find, after a while, that their little clubhouse elite is a very small place after all. Claustrophobia will set in or they will get drunk on their own high-fives. Their "safe room" will have to get padding. Or, they might bail to other places like eham.net and make out like they single-handedly worked stations side by side with Maxim or Marconi doing "pioneering" adventures in radio...that none of them could possibly have done. They didn't? 146s, LA- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text - 243s |
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