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"I gotta admit that I thought you were joking too", "I'm surprised [Neo] is willing to post in this forum again since most of us are no longer willing to listen.." Dawn Wolthuis
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Neo -- Perhaps you will simply add this to your repository of quotations (stored using what data model?), without taking it to heart, but I'm hoping you will read and understand what I'm trying to say below and that it might have some impact, however small, on your future postings.

Here are the problems I have with your postings:

1. Your ethnics and professionalism are both in question with the way you handled your, apparently fake, challenge a while back. You announced a challenge, with an award, on this forum. It seems that most people who followed the discussions are in agreement that Hugo met your challenge. I did not verify that for myself, but from what I read, it did seem that whatever you wrote up as your challenge (initially, when it was announced) is something that Hugo spent time on, met, and then did not get the award. There are a number of ways you could have handled this if you made a mistake in offering a reward you did not have or did not intend to provide.

Possible correction: Post an apology to Hugo and the community for your phony challenge even though it is old news (when it comes to such matters of ethics and character, people have long memories).

2) Your responses to questions about theory have long examples that are unintelligible to anyone who is not tapped into your brain. You do not meet the reader half-way -- you expect them to come to you 100% of the way, every time. I'm weary of attempting to read these examples -- tell me what your point is, in English, and put an example at the end if it will help me, the reader, to understand your point.

Possible correction: Don't start all of your postings with examples we can't tap into or have seen before. Respond to the subject in sentences. Feel free to describe your theories, but if you must give an example, lead us into it so we have a clue what you are doing. Examples are not important for everything.

3) Your goals do not align with anything I care about. You have said that you have no practical goal in mind with the development of your database. I realize this is a theory discussion, but I am not interested in theorizing about something of no importance. What are you looking to achieve? What are you looking to add to the discipline? To society? It sounds like you have an intellectual exercise and are simply entertaining yourself.

Possible correction: Explain how what you are doing is helpful to someone. Why would you do it this way or that way? Does it provide a more maintainable solution? More flexible? More secure? Faster? More reliable?

Otherwise I, for one, simply have to ignore your posts -- they are not easy to read, not interesting to me, do not answer any questions I have of which I am aware, and do not help me think about the subject in any new way that sheds light on anything. Did that make sense? --dawn Received on Thu Feb 03 2005 - 01:36:54 CET