The Doc.
02-08-2002, 03:09 PM
This is in response to a comment made by chicken in the thread regarding MediaTemple's issue with GearHost:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=34804&pagenumber=2
Originally posted by Chicken
Let's be honest. It isn't the forum that that made gearhost look bad. They did that themselves. Responsiblily. Take it.
You're correct. You can't blame technology for the childishly aggressive tendencies of man - that's society's problem for not bringing them up properly. All WHT does is provide a place for people to break that other kid's shiny new toy car; all those skeletons we carry - even temporarily - are a perfect staging ground to assault a business and more fundamentally: its owner.
Free market has been corrupted to the point where we don't appreciate hard work done by our competition, we envy it. Because of a quickly growing tendency for individuals not to think for themselves the inability to compete turns envy into hate. Hate drives a need to make the other person look bad even if only temporarily. Making other people look bad brings twisted self-gratification that's as addictive as any drug with the need to become a better aggressor taking the place of our fundamental goal of self-betterment.
As a community of hosts and hostees we need to praise accomplishment instead of mock shortcoming. The latter is a direction I've watched this forum take for some time now: hosts shadily promote themselves as newbie clients; hostees completely forget due process assuming this is the place to voice concerns; our recent exposure from MediaTemple is 2 steps below barratry...
There should be an accomplishments page preceding this forum and some kind of oath users take before posting here. Let's change the primary direction our community is taking from something hosts and hostess can dangle above the head of their lessor/competition and truly promote the business and its owners.
Everyone here has given up a part of themselves to serve the community, don't make us slaves to it.
Sincerely,
-Doc
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=34804&pagenumber=2
Originally posted by Chicken
Let's be honest. It isn't the forum that that made gearhost look bad. They did that themselves. Responsiblily. Take it.
You're correct. You can't blame technology for the childishly aggressive tendencies of man - that's society's problem for not bringing them up properly. All WHT does is provide a place for people to break that other kid's shiny new toy car; all those skeletons we carry - even temporarily - are a perfect staging ground to assault a business and more fundamentally: its owner.
Free market has been corrupted to the point where we don't appreciate hard work done by our competition, we envy it. Because of a quickly growing tendency for individuals not to think for themselves the inability to compete turns envy into hate. Hate drives a need to make the other person look bad even if only temporarily. Making other people look bad brings twisted self-gratification that's as addictive as any drug with the need to become a better aggressor taking the place of our fundamental goal of self-betterment.
As a community of hosts and hostees we need to praise accomplishment instead of mock shortcoming. The latter is a direction I've watched this forum take for some time now: hosts shadily promote themselves as newbie clients; hostees completely forget due process assuming this is the place to voice concerns; our recent exposure from MediaTemple is 2 steps below barratry...
There should be an accomplishments page preceding this forum and some kind of oath users take before posting here. Let's change the primary direction our community is taking from something hosts and hostess can dangle above the head of their lessor/competition and truly promote the business and its owners.
Everyone here has given up a part of themselves to serve the community, don't make us slaves to it.
Sincerely,
-Doc