I wasn’t actually talking about you dude.
I’m suspicious about Xray though. Shows up out of the blue and starts posting like crazy, claims to be from Zimbabwe, which is an odd country for someone who posts mainly in WC to pick unless they had prior knowledge of AF and CvM. Curteous use of “sir”.
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October 14, 2014, 1:45pm
#22
bchad:
RR, I think the issue that’s coming up is that you feel the need to defend yourself constantly, and this takes you in a bad direction here, and opens you up to more criticisms. At a point earlier on, people did seem to gang up on you and I think you felt a need to answer each and every criticism with more and more stuff.
There’s a time to let it go. At the end of the day, these are just anonymous posters on the internet, and a large number of the more obnoxious posts are just really young and immature people shooting their mouths off about stuff that they actually know little about.
Don’t be one of those guys. Learn that when a dog barks at you, sometimes you just have to let them bark and go on your way, it’s ultimately meaningless.
I haven’t followed all your posts here (just too much work to follow everyone’s stuff, that’s why we have multiple moderators), but my sense is that you are trying - like many young posters - to do one better than the next BSD wannabe. It’s a silly game to play. Yes it’s seductive. I sometimes have to tell myself that I will not comment on something for 24 hours, or decide that some idiot is just not going to engage in a logical or reasoned way and quit the discussion.
Just have the faith that you don’t have to be in every conversation about you, and that the quality of your posts (whether good or bad) will tell a story about you over time. Some people will always shoot their mouth off, and you really only need to respond to people you respect. That doesn’t mean you have to know all the answers, you can have good posts by asking reasonable or even perceptive questions, or making intersting comments.
Thanks…I will try to follow your advice…