[RESOLVED] About a 60kb Office Application Suite that I have written for Microsoft...

**Witis** · Mar 11th, 2013, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

I've totally ignored your strange references to Bohemian Rhapsody. Now that I have gone back to see what brought that on, I will say that it does fit the Witis pattern: For some time now, you have couched everything in such a barrage of irrelevant, and extensive, detail, that your point could be classified as a concealed weapon.

I'll put it this way, though it will do no good: You misunderstood a statement I made, and I'm not surprised. Written text can be confusing, since it is often devoid of the non-verbal communication that makes up so much of speech. However, I don't believe that ThE ImP was similarly confused based on his reply.

Nope, you are still not making any sense whatsoever; what is it that you are trying to say?????

**ThEiMp** · Mar 12th, 2013, 08:13 AM

Totally confused, right about now!!

**Witis** · Mar 12th, 2013, 08:22 AM

You have no chance to survive,

**Witis** · Mar 12th, 2013, 08:22 AM

make your time!!!

**Witis** · Mar 12th, 2013, 08:23 AM

Also why haven't you changed your icon to the one I uploaded for you yesterday????

**FunkyDexter** · Mar 12th, 2013, 09:45 AM

As I have already shown you are inclined to argue one way at any moment in time and then completely the reverse the very next as long as you have something to gain from doing so

I think what you're driving at is that Shaggy has himself poked fun at TheImp in this thread and is now criticising you for doing so. Indeed, I've done the same, as have several other members. The point you seem to have missed, however, is that the criticism isn't really about poking fun, it's about you insinuating that another member should be driven off the site. Those two acts are substantially different.

This does raise the question of exactly where poking fun and leveling criticism (there has been some, I would argue, legitimate criticsim of TheImp and his coding skills in this and other threads) is acceptable or not and when it crosses the line into bullying. That's a particularly fuzzy line in ChitChat where a certain amount of "banter" is to be expected and certainly starting a thread declaring you're rewritten office using VB6 is going to cause a snigger or two.

Ultimately the only judge of when that line is crossed, in this case, is TheImp himself. I personally don't believe that Shaggy has crossed that line with any of his comments and I sincerely hope I haven't. I do think, though, that people started sailing awfully close to that line a few pages back when people started bringing his personal relationships into it and latterly the sheer volume of irrelevances (which were mildly funny when they started out in lesser volumes) being posted starts to feel like a quite unpleasant level of heckling to me. But, as I said, TheImp is the only one who can really make a judgement on that. All I'll say is this, it's incumbant on us all to try and build a freindly and supportive community. Not stultified and humourless but not cruel and exclusive either.

At that point I think I'll bow out of the debate. I know from experience that you're not going to take any notice of any of this so I'm not sure why I'm bothering to type it really. I think it's really for the benefit of everyone except you. I may drop back in to make some banal pun at some point but I hope I'll still be on the comfrotable side of the line.

edit>By the way, the avatar you posted was quite groovy. I liked that and TheImp should definitely adopt it.

**Witis** · Mar 12th, 2013, 10:13 AM