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Subject: Re: did this group die?
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:19:54 -0700
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On 2024-10-30 10:02, badgolferman wrote:
> Andrews wrote:
> 
>> Hemidactylus wrote on Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:31:07 +0000 :
>>
>>>>> I wonder if you Apple zealots have any idea that the Windows and
>>>>> Android newsgroups are alive & kicking.
>>>>> It's just the Apple-related newsgroups that are moribund.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you even know why?
>>>>> I do.
>>>>
>>>> Cancel culture.
>>>>
>>> You�re either being flippant or paranoid delusional. That phrase
>>> has lost all meaning, if it had any sincerity to begin with.
>>
>> Since all you zealots do is attack people, you missed the sage wisdom
>> in badgolferman's response explaining why, when he posts to other
>> newsgroups, he's not called a troll - yet - when he posts on Apple
>> groups, he is.
>>
>> *You were so intent on attacking the poster - that you missed the
>> point.*
>>
>> What badgolferman said is exactly why the Apple newsgroups are
>> moribund.
>>
>> *And your attack-on-him response proved that badgolferman was correct*
> 
> 
> What is kill filing, shouting down, berating, and calling someone a
> troll anything other than forms of canceling a person?  Having
> disagreement using normal conversations without hurling aspersions is
> how emotionally mature people communicate.
> 

You can't "shout down" anyone in a newsgroup, you ignoramus.

None of those things cancel a person.

Now put on your big boy pants and stop snivelling.