I’ve spent a few hours online in a good ol’ ranting flamewar with Xah about the future of EmacsWiki! The gist is here: EmacsWiki:MissionRant. The real thing is the thread on gnu.emacs.help, however.
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Aren’t flamewars fun :D
I think your attitude is spot on. Well done, Alex.
– greywulf 2008-10-23 23:36 UTC
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Well, I 100% agree with your MissionRant but I’m not sure the hours have been well spent ;)
The initial statement would have been enough imho, I don’t think you have to justify yourself against xah because his ultimate goal is the flame not the issue discussed and I don’t think he can change what people think about emacswiki...after all these years the site would be dead if people didn’t love it...so having the mighty emacswiki owner participating to his troll only makes him successful.
(As an aside I think xah never add something useful to emacswiki, even when I invited him to put one of his article, the thing about searching and replacing across multiple files, he kept it on his site...)
– PierreGaston 2008-10-24 07:16 UTC
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Well, it was fun to return to the Usenet days of old for a bit. 😄
– Alex Schroeder 2008-10-24 10:52 UTC
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Yeah, every now and again a good flamewar rant on the usenet can be fun. But only now and again as otherwise it gets depressing. 😉
– Eric 2008-10-24 11:43 UTC