Maymay took a moment to respond to my post. To be fair I will copy and past his entire response here, then my comments below it.
Soulhuntre, my response to your post:
I never felt I had the respect of anyone with any “status” in TES. Why else do you think I felt comfortable posting what I did?
Also, you seem to agree with me on most (if not all) of the technical points that I made, saying in not so many words that they are technically sound but that the problems are “inherited” and thus not your responsibility.
This is exactly the attitutde of “oh well, it’s so broken and I didn’t make it so it’s not my mess to clean up” that’s kept the TES web site so completely awful for so long. And further, as the IT Committee Chair for TES, I’d say that’s a pretty uninspiring attitude to have. It would even be politically suicidal if TES politics weren’t the isolated popularity contests that they are.
Finally, might I point out that a URL pasted into a comments field as a string is not actually a link. If I were you, my comment would have been: “It’s easier if I just link to my response. :)” – Maymay
I responded with the following…
“I never felt I had the respect of anyone with any “status” in TES. Why else do you think I felt comfortable posting what I did?”
My point was not whether you thought did or didn’t have any status… my point was that the only circumstances under which your attitude would make sense as anything other than a pointless flame is if you had any status.
“Also, you seem to agree with me on most (if not all) of the technical points that I made,”
The few actual objective points? Sure.
“saying in not so many words that they are technically sound but that the problems are “inherited” and thus not your responsibility.”
You are incorrect. I said specifically that as IT chair the responsibility chain stops with me.
My point about their status as “inherited” issues was simply that your a little off base when you consider them representative of the skill level of anyone currently involved.
“This is exactly the attitutde of “oh well, it’s so broken and I didn’t make it so it’s not my mess to clean up” that’s kept the TES web site so completely awful for so long.”
I can only gather that you did not actually read my response. At least I hope you didn’t rather than that your comprehension of what I wrote is this poor.
“And further, as the IT Committee Chair for TES, I’d say that’s a pretty uninspiring attitude to have.”
I suppose it would be – if your mis-characterization of my comments bore any relationship to my actual attitude.
Since however they do not bear any relationship to reality whether or not they are inspiring is unimportant.
“It would even be politically suicidal if TES politics weren’t the isolated popularity contests that they are.”
And of course if they were true. Then again you generally seem to be an “attack first, think later” kind of guy so why let reality get in your way? ๐
“Finally, might I point out that a URL pasted into a comments field as a string is not actually a link.”
My you really are trying so hard, aren’t you? What’s your implication here – that I don’t know how to use the link tag? It’s all very puffer fish of you – you try so hard to come off big and it’s really just air inside.
Generally speaking in a world of blog comment spam it is often a courtesy not to embed a link into a comment but to past the text of the URL.
Then again, courtesy isn’t your strong point either, is it ๐