The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #22198   Message #239477
Posted By: Wolfgang
07-Jun-00 - 02:38 PM
Thread Name: Land of Hope and Glory
Subject: RE: Land of Hope and Glory
The other thread with this title (click) is a prime example of what can happen from misunderstanding each other in the internet and from making wrong assumptions about someone you do not know.
It seems to me obvious (now!) that Banjo Johnny didn't recognise a link when a helpful link was posted by Brendy in a post which was completely ununderstandable without the knowledge that a link was included. Brendy's second post was an easy to understand aside remark for anybody who had followed that link, but of course completely off the mark if the link was not seen as such (and therefore not followed). And so on.
Reread Johnny's posts in that thread with the assumption of the link not being recognised by him then you see that he was not flaming at all but just voicing mild irritation. But assume he had read that link then his post might be read as a start of a flame war. He got the response 'fuck off' where an explanation how to click a link would possibly have been the correct response.
See what I mean? Working on the one assumption you have a person asking a polite question and showing growing irritation in later posts. Working on the other assumption you have a flamer who forgets to say 'thank you' when he gets a very quick response.

Wolfgang