[DeTomaso] Can we please stop, -again-?

[Sean Korb]

Come on Asa, just use the Delete key. When people really make me mad I
use email filtering to turn them off.  Sometimes I go back to see if
it was a mistake, but I just get really mad again.  But nobody on this
list has made me that mad and honestly I don't expect it.  I've seen
soooo much worse since the early days of Usenet I can tolerate almost
anything.

I do hope most of us will stick to NPC for talking about touchy
subjects about religion or politics.  I'm guilty of deviating from
that too, but I want to be good.

Also, no pointing ;)

sean

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com> wrote:
> Let's look at some stats on doug sedon, shall we?
>
> Since he doesn't bother to capitalize his name, neither will I.  I
> already know he's well versed in the American language but that he
> refuses to use it.  You never really know which keys he'll press in
> order to complete a word or how he'll construct a sentence.  To me, it
> simply shows a low level of intellect when trying to engage in civil
> discourse.
>
> The following stats only go back to January of 2005.  I stopped at
> that point because I think sufficient statistical facts had been
> gathered.
>
> Since January of 2005 doug sedon has posted a total of 163 times to
> date.  Of those, 52 might be considered Pantera related.  That's less
> than one-third of all his postings, were Pantera related.
>
> Of the 52, there were many that were more political in context with
> very limited genuine Pantera conversational response.  There were very
> few in fact, that began as a Pantera question or direct response to a
> Pantera question.  Anything that was "car related without politics"
> regardless of Pantera content also fell into this category.  So the 52
> number is subjective and fuzzy but I tried to err on the side of
> automotive related, without politics.
>
> The remaining 111 postings from doug sedon to date began as, or were
> direct politically motivated responses to, (in most cases) a
> legitimate quip about government and or business regulation or some
> other position based more in politics than in automobiles.
>
>      i.e. a complaint about gas taxes as a quip turns into a
> multi-email thread about oil companies, government regulation, how
> we're all getting screwed by the Republicans, yadda-yadda-yadda,
> blah-blah-blah... and on it goes.
>
> The last time doug sedon had posted prior to this most recent string
> of 14 politically motivated emails, was in May of 2010.  For 15 months
> we've been doug sedon communist free and ya'll just spun his ass up
> again.
>
> doug sedon is all about posting political discourse.  Right or wrong
> he likes to stir the pot.  Yup, somethings he says we agree on, others
> we don't.  He says there are many people who have emailed him off-line
> to agree with him, and there are many who post on-line who don't.  Fine.
>
> My point is, he's out for the political agenda, these are postings
> that have absolutely no Pantera content, no automotive related content
> (unless it's defending the UAW and bashing the corporations).
>
> -  April 2005, 19 of 22 posts were political in nature
> -  November 2005, 30 of 32 posts were political in nature
> -  Between Dec 05 and Mar 08, doug sedon posted about 40 times, again
> only about one third were actually Pantera or DeTomaso related.
> -  From April 2008 until May of 2010, there wasn't one posting from
> doug sedon that was Pantera related.  That's nearly two years of
> silence, no Pantera or car content. In the same period of time he did
> manage to make eight political statements that were not necessarily
> car related.
>
> Is anyone else seeing a pattern here?
>
> Sure, we've all made a political comment here and there, even I have.
> However, I decided a while back to simply stop responding to these
> kinds of things in public as it seriously detracted from what I
> thought was the primary purpose of the forum and in many cases just
> started pissing off more people.  I've held off on this one until now.
>
> doug, STFU!
>
> ... and no, I don't really care if I -did- piss off doug sedon.
>
> Asa Jay
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Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
'65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382
"The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller
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