[ale] Flame Warning -- poll bashing has crossed the line

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 21:50, Cade Thacker wrote:
> TO THE REST OF THE LIST: I am very sorry for this rant, but I tried to do
> something to help solve an issue, and in the resulting emails from Drew,
> the only thing is get is crap all over the help I tried to provide in
> solution to a very touchy issue. So fell free to delete. But I want to
> make Drew very sure that he understand that he has crossed a big line in
> my book, by publicly crapping on my contribution. This is not a matter of
> free speech, it is a matter of curtesy.

<justifiable spleen venting deleted>

For what it's worth, Cade, I appreciated the effort. You stepped up and
volunteered some time and expertise to offer a "quick and dirty hack"
(always a good thing :) to help keep track of people's preferences on
apparently a religious issue. You volunteered your time, and your
bandwidth. 

I thank you now as I did not thank you for your efforts earlier. 

I am disappointed with the "community" that blatantly abused this
process while whining about "giving back to the community". The
hypocrisy has been appalling. If this is what the abusers want to give
to this community, maybe they should rethink their involvement in this
community.

This entire process greatly underscores the inherent dangers posed by a
few malcontents with some skills and a "cause" and access to tools.

As for many others in this community who have stayed silent on this
rehashed issue, I personally apologize for my vitriolic diatribe as I
have been very irritated with the loss of a choice on my interaction
method with this community. It is not a religious issue for me, it is
one of time and convenience with some logic thrown in for good measure.

And lastly, to those who actively participated in the ballot stuffing,
go stuff yourself. Or better, grow up. Your behavior in this matter has
been such as to lose much respect. Someday, you may need to talk to one
of the others in the group about a job. Just make sure if it's me you're
asking that you wait a very long time.


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