An Unexpected Finding Among Commercial Pilots
Morgans writes:
He will be here until he is ignored, and nobody responds to his posts... and
I fear that will never happen.
Especially if you admonish people to ignore him after each of his posts.
I don't know why people feel the need to respond, but respond, they do.
Physician, heal thyself.
I don't think there is much more time left until there are few left to
respond. Many have already left; more are leaving all the time. Many more
will follow.
Actually, there has been no mass exodus, beyond the usual turnover. There may
be one or two who have assumed or will assume a low profile after attempting
things that they should not have. However, the bulk of newsgroup participants
are not bothered by me (or by you) and are completely indifferent to my
participation. It's a big group, and there are only a handful of bullies and
whiners on it, vocal though they might be.
It is a pity to see a group lose their focus, all because of one person.
For someone who considers me unimportant, you certainly have an exaggerated
notion of my influence.
I think that is his primary goal, perhaps.
I think that a few people here are irritated with me to the point of
preoccupation. That is their problem, not mine.
It reminds me a bit of an old Hitchcock movie in which the protagonist is
obsessed with knives, and in a dinner-table conversation with others the only
word he ever seems to hear clearly is "knife." The others are not talking
about knives, but that is all he is interested in hearing, so to him the
dinner party is obsessed with cutlery.
He will never amount to anything
that would allow him to join the flying, so wipe out something that real
pilots enjoy; deprive them of something, because he is deprived of something
they can do.
I'm surprised you haven't thrown in a threat to world peace and prosperity.
So the status quo continues. He makes stupid posts, people insult him, and
on it goes, where it stops, nobody knows.
Hmm.
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