Re: plonking (was: Re: Singularity: can't happen here)

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Tue Sep 11 2001 - 03:01:58 MDT


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 04:02 PM 9/10/01 -0700, samantha wrote:
>

>
> >I also don't plan on
> >walking on eggshells about what my views on other subjects are
> >in order to fight it.
>
> I certainly read all this on my first pass as deep-coded thus: `Hey, if
> you're not signed up 100 percent to the Charter, piss off out of here, and
> who the hell are you anyway?' So I felt my own finger, too, drawn toward
> the *plonk* key. That was probably an over-reaction, I decided, but still...

I am even more surprised by such an initial reaction when I am
probably the last person on here that would say anyone should be
here for dissenting for any majority held opinions. I think my
posting style and comments since I've been here support that I
don't operate like that. I am trying to understand how what I
said would be taken that way and why it caused people to drop
context of the type of person I thought I was visible as being.
I am more than a bit taken aback. How can I e-talk as much as I
have here and still remain that invisible?

- samantha



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