Re: #macdev/#iphonedev ban, in need of sympathy
Re: #macdev/#iphonedev ban, in need of sympathy
- Subject: Re: #macdev/#iphonedev ban, in need of sympathy
- From: "Patrick M. Rutkowski" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 22:45:10 -0400
Sorry, this is all just really frustrating, and I guess I was running
under the false assumption that #macdev/#iphone and the mailing lists
are the same user community :-/
My apologies for the language. Your right, I shouldn't have posted
this to the list at all.
-Patrick
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Barry Skidmore <email@hidden> wrote:
> I'd ban you just for your language personally. The run on sentences and
> half thought out bad logic aside.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 2, 2010, at 7:30 PM, "Patrick M. Rutkowski" <email@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> I just got kick/banned from #macdev and #iphondev. I was asking an
>> exceptionally complicated NSStream question in #iphonedev, and though
>> I got a lot of pseudo-answers, nobody really even understood the
>> question to begin with; I hand't even gotten far enough in physically
>> typing out the text explaining the problem, so they couldn't possibly
>> have gotten the point.
>>
>> After enough trying there, I went to #macdev instead, looking for
>> alternative thoughts. Fortunately, someone there was finally able to
>> understand the question, but only after dozens and dozen of lines of
>> IRCing in a PM. He gave some pointers, and now it's all worked out.
>>
>> However, in the mean time, another user in #macdev started bitching at
>> me about reposting the question when I already supposedly got "loads
>> of answers" in #iphonedev (which I most definitely did not).
>>
>> I say "bitching" because he wasn't just politely reminding me that
>> re-posting question is frowned up. His words were of a condensing
>> sort, and he was _bitching_ about it. So, I said "fuck you, /ignore",
>> and put him on "/ignore" Immediately after that, the admin RTFM_FTW
>> banned me, and he's not willing to lift it.
>>
>> I get banned from #iphonedev and #macdev on a very regular basis.
>> Don't quote me on the numbers, but I think it's something like once
>> per month, sometimes maybe more. Every time it's by this abusive admin
>> RTFM_FTW. I've had open disputes with him in the past. Eventually I
>> politely told him that I didn't think we should interact anymore, and
>> then put him on a permanent "/ignore" in my IRC client. But the bans
>> keep coming anyway :-/
>>
>> I feel that I'm being discriminated against. The bans keep coming from
>> RTFM_FTW, and from nobody else.
>>
>> I wish I could put some sort of injunction on RTFM_FTW banning me,
>> because I'm certain no other admins would.
>>
>> I'm not really sure what to do here. I'm really missing
>> #macdev/#iphonedev right now :-(
>>
>> -Patrick
>>
>> P.S
>> If you're on here RTFM_FTW, fuck you. Just leave me the fuck alone
>> already. I don't want to talk to you, and you don't want to talk to
>> me; we don't like each other, and that's fine. But stop fucking
>> banning me already, it's an abuse of your position. Feel free to ask
>> another op to ban me, and if that other op feel that it's fit, then
>> I'll be fine with a ban from _them_. But I doubt that's likely to ever
>> happen, because 90% of your reason for banning me is due to the
>> lasting dislike of me that you have from that time I talked back to
>> you earlier this year in #macdev, so just quit it already, please!
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