[aur-general] A TU keeps removing harmless and relevant comments from my package's webpage

Daniel Wallace danielwallace at gtmanfred.com
Tue Dec 18 05:37:34 EST 2012


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Xavion <xavion.0 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I had a feeling this matter would balloon out of proportion, so I took
>a
>screenshot of the comments <http://i.imgur.com/nA5cK.png> before they
>were
>deleted.  After these, the next two were supplied by Alexander
>(xyproto)
>before he wiped them all.  The first of these seems to be a bit
>petulant in
>my opinion.  It looks like he became a bit peeved and intimidated when
>I
>mentioned being qualified.
>
>Alexander's (xyproto) first:
>
>> Your "well and truly qualified" statement is meaningless, unless you
>are
>> aware of the qualifications of the people you talk to here, which I
>assume
>> you are not. It's also offtopic.
>>
>> Fine.
>>
>
>Alexander's (xyproto) second:
>
>> Removing all the comments, as they don't really add anything to the
>> information about the package.
>>
>
>@ keenerd
>I didn't ignore your comment; I responded to it within a day.  You then
>ignored my comment!  You should get your facts straight before
>accusing.
>By the way, thanks for attempting to pick faults with eight of my
>PKGBUILDs
>overnight.  Forgive me for thinking that you've got even more spare
>time on
>your hands than Alexander does.  Also, where does it say on the
>ArchWiki
>that small Bash scripts must be housed outside of the tarball?  You've
>made
>this change to my
>popular-packages<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/popular-packages/>PKGBUILD
>without noting where it states that doing so is mandatory.  I also
>don't think this should have happened because Alexander (xyproto)
>himself
>wrote in the comments linked above that I didn't actually have to make
>that
>change!
>
>@ Dave & Xyne
>I appreciate your balanced comments.  It's good that you haven't taken
>one
>side of the story and discarded the other.  I just want to note - for
>the
>billionth time - that I didn't disregard official guidelines in the
>PKGBUILD.  A full explanation of this is available in the
>aforementioned
>comments log.
>
>@ Alexander (xyproto)
>It's pretty obvious to all but the bleakest of minds that you deleted
>the
>first round of comments because I defeated all of your arguments and
>made
>you look silly.  There's no way you'll ever admit to this, which is why
>you
>simply deemed the comments irrelevant instead.  Also, you have
>carefully
>dodged the matter of the second round of comment deletions.  You've
>only
>elaborated about your decision to delete the first round, which wasn't
>what
>I was complaining about in the first place!  My issue was that someone
>then
>deleted my next comment, which was the only one listed there at the
>time:
>"As I'm the author of this little script, I will always want it to
>remain
>in the AUR".  It will be interesting to see whether you have the balls
>to
>admit to deleting this isolated comment as well.  The next step would
>be
>for you to formulate a semi-plausible reason for doing so in an attempt
>to
>trick anyone reading this thread.
>
>
>--
>Regards, Xavion.

This is not a channel for personal attacks please do not try to make it one
- --
Sent from my Android Phone.
Daniel Wallace
Arch Linux Trusted User
GTManfred
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