From: Adam Prescott Date: 2011-04-15T06:38:28+09:00 Subject: Re: Chad Perrin --bcaec51b1c2bb30f7c04a0e7bea6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Everett L Williams II wrote: > *Hasn't anybody in the management of this forum the guts to either quiet or > dispatch Chad Perrin before he manages to do more damage than he already > has. This is not how openness works. I also read almost every post to this mailing list/forum, and I have not recently seen anything from Chad that is damaging. I don't know what you have in mind here; perhaps you're referring to the heated discussion about Excel as a programming language which derailed because of meta-arguments over semantics? > He cannot be reasoned with, he sees all who disagree with him as the enemy, > and he attacks constantly. This is not constructive; you're attacking someone personally and making claims about them as an individual. > However much he may contribute to Ruby, he will contribute to it's demise > if he continues without moderation. He appears to be quite expert in Ruby, > but if he attacks every other method of working as if it were the enemy, he > cannot benefit the cause in either the short or the long run. In any case, > he has certainly caused me to lose my taste for further adventures in Ruby. > That is no great loss, but others might be. I don't think starting a whole new thread just to attack an individual -- in public, no less -- is a worthwhile contribution to this mailing list/forum, regardless of what you think about Chad's views. Perhaps it would be better to directly talk with the people in charge of ruby-talk. > Please unsubscribe me from this list. > You may do so without direct assistance from the people who administer this mailing list: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/mailing-lists/ or http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/mailing-lists/manual-instructions/ --bcaec51b1c2bb30f7c04a0e7bea6--