On Nov 9, 2007 11:04 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
But that Making Light ran a blatant personal attack article *after* the original conflict had apparently been sorted out, however, does not speak well of them at all in terms of being people it's reasonable to consider bothering to interact with.
Well, many of them are old-school Usenetters, used to down and dirty personal conflict, no holds barred. I suspect that's a good part of it.
It was also about a clash between two insular groups, each of which was/is quite good at thinking of themselves as The Good People and not noticing how that to those not in the group they appear prickly and combative.
They acted like dicks. However, 'our group' acted like dicks too - or at least, those of us who didn't, weren't noticed - civility tends to get quietly ignored.
-Matt