Ashton, totally in the grip of some new-age blather-frenzy, gibbers on:
If the party of the First Part chooses not to offer a rebuttal to gossip about gossip - for whatever imputed reasons, I can play it as it lays (an egg).WHAT fucking "gossip about gossip" are you blathering about?!?
All I've seen here has been either, A) References to the mailing list thread we've all (or most of us) seen, and the archives of which are available to check up on the Web; or, B) (lately, a few) references to private e-mail exchanges and/or Jabber conversations. And, admittedly, at least part of category B could well be termed "gossip"... But, 1) Jabber (and other IM systems) never really was "private" in any sensible usage of the term, it's more on a par with Usenet News; and, 2) Category A *certainly* isn't "gossip"!
So, if this "gossip" you see everywhere bothers you so, do as I do: Just fucking disregard the posts where people talk about what took place in a private e-mail exchange. How hard can that be?!?
And, if it's Category A you're talking about, then you're I) Out of your gourd (Q.E.D.); and, II) the fucking Über-gossiper here *yourself*!
So shut the fuck up at least with *that* particular bullshit, please.
Thank you.
Having now seen a sufficiency of how IT sausage is made, I suggest that all future promotion and demotion ceremonies be held at a whisper in a darkened room, off-line, off-list and in Swahili - with the records ceremonially burned (and stirred). White smoke / black smoke.WHAT fucking "promotion and demotion ceremonies" are you blathering about?!?
I have seen four occurences, no more and no less, that could perhaps remotely be termed "demotions" here:
1: Karsten's unsubscribing of Mike Huber.
2: The removal of Karsten's mailing-list-admin privileges.
3: Karsten's unsubscribing *himself* from the mailing list.
4: Karsten *himself* saying "goodbye, for evermore" to these fora.
Again, the most frequent common factor -- in three out of four -- is *Karsten himself* taking some action. Are you blind, or just stupid, that you can't see that?!?
The only exception, #2, was -- *by Karsten's own admission*! -- fully justified by his egregious action, #1.
What your stream-of-unconsciousness gibber-blather *seems* to be about, though, is #3 and #4 -- as if "someone" had "demoted" Karsten!
Try to understand -- fully grok, not just mouthing the letters -- this simple sentence: HE DID THAT ALL BY HIMSELF!
It was HE who unsubscribed himself from the mailing list; it was HE who pranced off from these fora like a prima-donna who's been upstaged. So what the fuck IS this "demotion" you've been snivelling about, for days on end now, supposed to be?
Don't you fucking see how utterly INSULTING your shameless naked LIE -- your at-least-implication[*] of _him_ having *been* "demoted" (as in, _by someone else_) -- is, to pretty fucking much all the rest of us?!?
([*]: I'm too tired right now to try to "parse" your drivel to ascertain whether you're actually saying it explicitly or not -- and besides, "parsing" itself is somehow eeevullll too, according to you, isn't it?)
{sheesh}"Sheesh", indeed.
Lay off the fucking crystals, man.