MZMcBride wrote:
Ryan Lane wrote:
Again with the phrasing. Cut it out.
Sincerely, I'm still a little unclear what phrasing you object to here. Just to be perfectly clear, it's the use of the word "mess," right? If so, I can make note not to use that word going forward on this list.
It may be a regional thing...
I think it's more of a cultural thing.
You've displayed two traits that I'd tend to associate with the old Usenet culture:
1. A near-absolute reverence for doing things Right. In the case of system administrative tasks, that means, Never Fuck Up the Data in a Lossy Way. If you have to stay up all night to fix it, you stay up all night.
2. A willingness to avoid issues of delivery in communication, a predilection for calling a spade a spade. If someone gets their feelings hurt by that kind of directness, it's their problem.
As someone who harbors both these traits myself, you have all my sympathy. But as someone who has badly insulted others, and who has been badly insulted by others, the others in this thread have all my sympathy, too. (How's that for fence-sitting?)