sgmunson (8/18/2013)
Boy, a typo sure can bite you (Ouch! :w00t: ), and once committed, keep biting... Poor Jeff... his bite took out his CMOS battery...Anyway, you appear to be assuming that the mere presence of a poll is justification to go ahead and post pretty much the same thing as most others. Given that the consensus was in existence 5 years ago, using the poll to bolster your argument doesn't do much for it. However, if you look at the most recent posts, and don't primarily see a rehash of the consensus reached 5 years ago, then there's not much point in continuing, as we're just not going to see eye to eye.
L' Eomot Inversé (8/18/2013)
sgmunson (8/18/2013)
I think you've forgotten the purpose of tracking a discussion... to hear relevant points when they are made. I see no reason to have to go spend hours managing tracking subscriptions simply to eliminate hearing any more on a given topic, and I fail to see why I wouldn't want to hear something new on the topic. My only objection is to repeated, re-hashed, slightly differently worded treatises that clearly identify the manager as at least half the problem, if not more, and provide nearly identical reasons to dozens of prior posts that more than effectively communicate that concept. Rather than fingering me for being allegedly lazy, how about fingering the posters who seem to want to dredge up a dead thread by repeating what by now should be fairly obvious?repeating what should now be obvious: well, the editorial asks people to give opinions for a poll - that appears to be in direct conflict with the idea that each comment should be new and different. Maybe you object to editorials that try to discover a consensus or a majority view?
And I suspect you didn't read the comments carefully; the comments since republication aren't all a rehash of what went before - in fact the proportion of boring rehashing is rather less than the proportion in the original 5 year old set of comments.
BTW, I hope you don't really believe that 2008 was only 3 years ago. :w00t:
Waaaay to much whining. Steve, you're fired.
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