What about CSMA COLA makes people flame 1816

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It depends a lot on how the material is worded in the first place. Snit's posts are frequently aggressive, argumentative, reach conclusions on limited data at best, all in all, far too opinionated without support facts. That's what I mean is inappropriate material, particularly for cross-posting. It's even worse when OPs have told Snit about this - rather than fix the problem, (s)he just engages in flaming.

If I were looking at well written, well reasoned material, with at least a pbutting attempt at balance, then things might be different.

He's spent a lot of time telling other people they don't know what they're talking about, which is very much trolling. He seems unaware of his own limitations, yet is able to make amazing broad-brush, blanket claims about the capabilities and needs of other people. He claims to be a computer consultant and lecturer, yet shows not the slightest interest in learning or researching. He was even introduced to a local LUG, *after* having claimed, in rather obnoxious fashion, that there weren't any in his area, and never turned up. Nor did he comment, nor even apologise. I attempted to discuss with him exactly what his 'newbies' wanted, and could not ever even determine if there were one, several, loads. He even claimed to have worked with thousands (yes, 1000s) of newbies and new all their requirements well, which clearly cannot be true.

I'm not so convinced that our snitty friend is anything other than a dweller of the deep like flatty. He's a slightly different breed, he maintains a low-level of anti-social behaviour on a continuous basis, is slightly provocative almost all of the time.

There've clearly been some serious problems with Snit in CSMA. Whilst I agree that you could argue this seems to be both-ways to an extent, I would point out that there are not groups of people turning up to accuse the accusers, as it were, so it does suggest that Snit is the cause of the problem.

'bout time too. I got caught into this too, and shouldn't've done. I don't think I've ever regularly cross-posted before, and I don't think I will again. Snit will remain, where he belongs, at -9999, with all the other trolls.

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