| > Your crab-in-a-bucket mentality will not be welcomed warmly here. Excuse me? All I said was "you shouldn't be taking for granted that PHP is terrible, when you don't know other languages, just because a bunch of people have told you so." I have actually been here quite a bit longer than you have; years before I created my account. I've also been a professional developer for more than 20 years. Just because you disagree with my position doesn't mean you get to insult me and announce that a community which has received me better than it has received you (take a look at our score averages, please) is not going to like me. . > You might consider encouraging other people to learn new things Maybe you should calm down and re-read what you're arguing with. That's exactly what I did. . > instead of being a sour asshole to somebody asking the community for advice. I think maybe you should also consider whether you're speaking to yourself by accident. I didn't curse, or make any personal attacks. What I did was say "if you make this assumption, and choose not to learn directly, it will cost you." . > Please go back to lurking. I would appreciate it if you don't speak to anyone in this fashion anymore. Your tone is far beyond appropriate, you don't appear to have taken the time to figure out what I was actually saying, and you have been really quite unacceptably aggressive. If anything, your tone encourages me to speak out more often, because I find this sort of lynchpin "anyone who disagrees with the herd is just being a crabby asshole" nonsense to be one of the most direct ways to challenge people's intent to grow. I mean, yes, you've managed to quote a blub article. Very nice. But I don't think you've received the impact you were going for. I was not an asshole by saying "don't take for granted what the crowd tells you; learn for yourself." And I don't need to be told, in response, that I should be encouraging learning. The next time you feel like being this severely critical in public, it may help for you to take a few hour breather, and then come back and make sure the person really actually did say the thing you thought, and that your tone in response is at least somewhat appropriate. I hope you will consider the possibility that you're just yelling at your own imagination. I'm kind of mortified by what just happened here. I don't know how to walk away from this supportively. I realize you're trying to defend someone, but it's from an attack that didn't exist, and in response, you've gotten just astoundingly vulgar. |