The dumification of humanity through internet

I think everyone in the world has wanted to do that at some point. even westerners.

rodw wrote:

my1987toyota wrote:

So tell us what you really think tommylight.

I really think Tommy wants to pick a fight with whole of the western world!

Nah, this was just to prove that this forum is very polite, even in such extreme cases when someone blabbers nonsense, like me here.
Last week we had two members complaining about exactly that, blaming the forum members for replies they got, while questions mostly did not warrant a reply at all, but still they got polite replies and maximum effort in helping them.
I vividly recall a few years back someone calling us here "morons" and still he got polite replies ... and got fired from his job, as he got a job he had no basic knowledge of, then came here hoping we can magically save him.
I can not find that one, but i did find the other one using the same language:
forum.linuxcnc.org/38-general-linuxcnc-q...tart?start=10#134151
forum.linuxcnc.org/38-general-linuxcnc-q...r-not-working#140335
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So to reiterate:
This is the best forum in the world!!!

Yikes.

Nice feller.

I get annoyed sometimes here with the "presumed prior knowledge" crowd, but that is not how you deal with that.

I just figured tommylight was having a bad day.

tommylight, I remember those posts I couldn't believe he wasn't banned at that point because of how
he was acting. I think we are tougher on spammers then people were on that guy.
 

We are humans, and as such we all have our ups and downs.
Hence, it's also human to restrain when someone else has a bad day as not to amplify whatever hardship they are going through.
As for spammers, they do damage, actual damage, as clicking on some of those links will literally grant them full access to your PC and everything on your network, yes even cameras, followed by misusing whatever info they got out of your systems and then some will add extortion to that threatening with making that info public. Or completely locking you out of everything, and extorting you to get your own stuff back.
So calling us names here and a bit of cursing and swearing just makes this place more "colorful"

tommylight wrote:

As for spammers, they do damage, actual damage, as clicking on some of those links will literally grant them full access to your PC and everything on your network, yes even cameras, followed by misusing whatever info they got out of your systems and then some will add extortion to that threatening with making that info public. Or completely locking you out of everything, and extorting you to get your own stuff back.

 

Good point.