[Advocacy] Re: Me, the grouser?

[Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves]

Wow, just wow.

In my defense I will say little.  I'm supposed to be a nobody.  I'll
have to say, though, that whatever respect I had for you is now gone,
what with you trying to pull a private matter into a public list
completely unrelated with the matter at hand.  Internet drama at its
best.

I asked you privately if bashing is the kind of advocacy you like to
show.  I probably shouldn't have.  Over zealouness getting in the way
of logical thinking.  You didn't post the follow up message I sent
you, where I tried to explain why I sent that message to begin with.

If this kind of public slam pleases ya to mock my zealouness, cool.
Go ahead.  I'd rather you did it privately, though.

Here's the follow up message that you forgot to post about:
"I don't mind realistic people.  I would appreciate, though, if you
would not give a negative impression of what we do when you post
something to the lists.  We already have a lot of opposition and bad
mouthing out there, and I find we don't need more in here, as well.

That's your call, though.  Understand that it hurts our efforts a lot.
 And your own.

Unfortunately, in this world of ours, reputation is what makes credibility."

Am I a dick?  Yeah.  But at least I'm not a troll.  I'll do what Ralph
said, though: stop.  I didn't want this issue to turn out the way it
did.  Sorry about that everyone.  It was my fault to begin with.
Please go on and deal with the important matters out there.

-Ivo