norman.walsh.name: Comments on /2004/11/19/overheardhttp://norman.walsh.name/2004/11/19/overheard/comments.atom2012-05-22T19:19:12.301509ZComment 1 on /2004/11/19/overheardhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00012004-11-22T00:20:28Z2004-11-22T00:20:28ZDorothea Saloda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Hey! You canNOT end that last one with an ellipsis! Not allowed! (Who said it?)

Comment 2 on /2004/11/19/overheardhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00022004-11-22T14:04:18Z2004-11-22T14:04:18ZJohn Cowanda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Well, who do you think said it? :-)

The rest was something like "the experts in the field are also the worst flamers, so you can't just squelch them -- you have to carefully send back messages saying 'Please remove the fourth sentence of the third paragraph', and it's just exhausting." And I did make an exception for David.

I was telling my tale of woe as former moderator of Elfling, after Tim had told his as chair of the Atom flamefest^Wworking group.

Comment 3 on /2004/11/19/overheardhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00032004-11-22T14:49:25Z2004-11-22T14:49:25ZDorothea Saloda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Oh, well, all-righty then. And the people you're talking about aren't typically nearly as expert as they think they are... not that that's unusual in the tech world either, of course.