Ban
October 27, 2005Note: Eugenia put it best:
On our own playground, we have our own rules that you either follow, or you won’t play.
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I’m going crazy over Kelly McNeil and his good-for-nothing, crappy, unreadable, always-late ‘news’site OSViews.com.
He keeps going on this crusade to put me in a bad light, to discredit my work, to simply piss me off, and ruin OSNews in the process. We, the OSNews team, already had to act when he created multiple user accounts to abuse our system and get more mod-points– and thus pushing his own opinion by moderating down anyone who did not share his opinions.
After that, we got the whole story I explained here.
And now, we get this:
Good point. It’s important to look at which news editor is cherry picking these stories.
When you don’t have the commmunity dictating news links… you end up with a certain individual pushing a certain issue in an effort to get others to adopt his way of thinking.
I simply do not understand how he sees the world. At his site, you can’t even see who submitted what! At OSNews, you can clearly see who submitted a newsitem, and even who submitted a newsitem to us. This way, OSNews makes very clear where the news comes from.
At osV, you cannot see this. Kelly can keep on squealing on how osV posts “what the community dictates”, but there is no way in hell we can check up on that. For all we know, he finds/submits news himself (which is probably the case– especially since many items posted on OSN, appear on osV a day later).
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I’m close to reinstating the complete ban of Kelly on OSN. He is ruining OSNews, and I simply will *not* tolerate someone discrediting the work of the OSN team in public, on *OSNews itself*, without any sane logic behind his reasoning.
That guy belongs in a mental institution.
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Yup, agreed. I wrote about him too a few times in the past…
http://slashdot.org/~Eugenia%20Loli/journal/69790
I think completely banning his home IP (12.xx.xx.xx or something I think it is) to not even be able to read osnews, is even better. :P
Comment by Eugenia — October 27, 2005 @ 11:08 pm
What makes it even more annoying is that he thinks I have some sort of anti-Apple agenda; that is just so wrong in every aspect! I’m a huge fan of Apple’s hardware (you know that), and even more a fan of its OS and software (iWork is *superb*).
However, I *will* point out flaws in things or applications I’m fond of. I don’t bindly kiss Apple’s ass in whatever they do; I don’t eat Steve Jobs’ words like cake (I have the tendency of almost dying when eating cake :/) because he is no different from any other CEO or company guy: he *will* lie his ass off if it’s for the best of the company. I would do the same if I were in a high place. Actually– every person on the planet tells a lie about every 10 minutes or so; other than that, everyone routinely lies to make themselves, friends and family look better. It’s natural.
But anyway, that doesn’t mean I won’t point out where I think Jobs might be lying; and I truly believe that the recent PPC announcements show that “lack of speed and a roadmap” were by far not the primary reasons for the switch. Anyone with a decent set of brains can see that. This means fcuk all for the fact if I agree with Hannibal’s assertion that the Mac will no longer be the centre of Apple’s business (I think he is kind of overdoing it there).
I can get really worked up if people accuse me of stuff I haven’t done. I’ve been that way ever since I was a kid; if you want me to explode like an atomic bomb, accuse me of something I didn’t do.
Fireworks guaranteed.
Comment by Administrator — October 28, 2005 @ 10:34 am
Most definitely the community way is the way to go. Period. A fantastic new-ish example of this is Digg.com, though that may take a bit to the extreme…very wiki-like.
Comment by jayson knight — November 3, 2005 @ 3:00 pm