On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 08:57 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 02:21 +0000, Gregory Stark wrote:
>> >
>> >> On the other hand what does occur to me in retrospect is that I regret
>> >> that I didn't think about how I was disparaging the importance of
>> >> mental illness and hope nobody took offense for that reason.
>> >
>> > Your comments surprise me because you mentioned to me privately that you
>> > disliked on-list bullies.
>>
>> It hardly seems like bullying to me - a tongue-in-cheek humorous
>> remark to someone many of us, including Greg, have known and worked
>> with for years. If it were made to a newbie to the community, that
>> would be another matter.
>
> I was not the one complaining about bullying comments.
No, but you drew the comparison.
> It seems a strange moderation policy that allows bald insults from some
> people but not others. And stranger still that you think you should leap
> to the defence of any person making them. If the comments were meant so
> lightly, it would seem easy to withdraw them also, with a smile.
No stranger than you leaping to demand an apology. My point was, that
I didn't see an deliberate insult, and by the sound of it neither did
Josh. I saw a humorous response that was unfortunately missing a
smiley to make the intent clear for those that haven't been in these
parts for years. I would have thought that you too would know Greg
well enough to know that he wasn't trying to be rude but was making a
joke.
Anyhoo, I don't think this is worth wasting any more bandwidth so I'll
shut up now.
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Dave Page
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