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From: "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: did this group die?
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:02:32 -0000 (UTC)
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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.

-- 
"A word to the wise isn’t necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the
advice." ~ Bill Cosby