RE: Who hasn't been badly flamed?

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

----Original Message----
>From: Christopher Faylor
>Sent: 07 September 2005 04:35

> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:25:50PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:

>> Anyway, I think that's because good flamers are (a) somewhat
>> thick-skinned, and (b) recognize the intent behind other good flames.
> 
> I don't think that good flamers are thick-skinned.  IMO, it's probably
> the opposite.  They have hair triggers and a lot of time on their hands.

  Actually, I think there's a distinct taxonomy here.  Many (perhaps most)
flamers are indeed hair-trigger kooks with emotional deficits.  But quite a
few are actually more trying to be
comedians/writers/psychologists/con-artists in a collected, lucid and far
more calmly rational way than their more emotionally-driven cousins.

  Or IOW, flamers are all either Kooks or Trolls!  ;-P~

>> (Oh, and "good flaming" is pretty much an American thing. I've just had
>> to make a fence-mending visit to our offshore office to soothe feathers
>> ruffled by my "constructive comments"..)
> 
> I wouldn't say that good flaming is an American thing.  You must not be
> acquainted with Ulrich Drepper, the extremely able and often irascible
> glibc maintainer.
> 
> I have a couple of other examples but Ulrich trumps them all...
> 
> Oh, all right.  I'll give you one more.  Linus Torvalds.  He's more than
> capable of being very blunt in email.

  It's an entirely British style of humour as well - mates down the pub,
taking the piss and giving each other pretty vicious ribbings - growing a
thick skin is part of your everyday bloke social life on this island and has
always been since long before internet culture could have played any part in
influencing it.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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