HarassmentForum: User Feedback Topic: Harassment started by: gregc Posted by gregc on Mar. 30 2007,13:04
SOLVEDI was getting frustrated with my lack of progress and was perhaps taking out my frustration on someone else in this post but it is now sorted and i now know he was only trying to help-thanks............ I am a newbie and over the last couple of days I have been battling with my installation. I have asked questions and got answers which required more knowledge of linux than I have at the moment. One person has gone out of his way to give me a hard time.I was humiliated by some of this guys statements towards me-This has made my first experience with DSL a bad one. A search of posts under my name will support my comments. It has made me wonder if it is worth the effort to break away from windows.I am 60 and having not grown up with computers some of the suggestions like finding grub menus to edit can be a little daunting. I certainly dont need to be humiliated in the process.I am now reluctant to ask more questions on the forum while this person is around I must add I appreciate the help offered by others and these comments are about one person only. Posted by lucky13 on Mar. 30 2007,15:07
The only thing I went out of my way to do was to try to help you. And from about 2-6 in the morning, too.
Don't hesitate to ask questions. I'll make it easy for you: I won't offer to help you any longer or reply to any more of your posts until and unless you specify that I can. Fair enough? Posted by JohnJS on Mar. 30 2007,16:07
Hi Gregc,As a recent convert to DSL Linux, I too had to go through the learning curve. Don't give up as DSL is a great little OS. Don't take offense as the answers they give are meant to be brief and to the point. They wouldn't reply if they weren't trying to help. Good Luck. ps I'm 73. Posted by ron on Mar. 30 2007,16:19
Gregc,this is actually quite a gentle forum - one of the nicest. There are much nastier, more fanatical Linux forums out there, but this one is easygoing and friendly. It would not be possible I think to get very far with DSL if you don't use the forums in the early days until you find your feet. It is not possible to look under your name to find all your forum posts - this is not a haven for stalkers (and I have been a victim of internet stalkers so I appreciate that) - so you could only do it with Google. If someone did stalk you around the internet, that would definitely be "harassment" but if it's just forum posts then I don't think that applies. I haven't seen eye-to-eye with lucky13 in the past, but he's only trying to help users by supplying answers from his own knowledge, and not make them feel wretched. So, my 2 cents' worth is: I think you should continue using the forum and also try to increase your general Linux knowledge in your spare time.
Posted by humpty on Mar. 30 2007,17:29
this is just a case where people forgot to put themselves in each other's shoes.i added some step by step stuff for your problem; < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=5;r=1 > Posted by lucky13 on Mar. 30 2007,19:00
Thanks, Ron. I tried to keep our disagreement over the subject of copyrights strictly to the issue and from getting personal. I know I'm opinionated about a lot of things, but I try not to be disagreeable when I don't agree with others. I also don't hold a grudge against you or anyone else here. Posted by gregc on Mar. 31 2007,02:12
JOHN RON &HUMPTYThanks for your encouragement-humpty all the pieces are back together again GREG |