And that's a fact. For anyone who reads here, they may have noticed that you and I locked horns, much to my surprise, in the "supplements", and "fruit fly" threads in the last 48 hours. I encourage those with nothing better to do to read there, especially in the "fruit fly" thread, which with your new-found powers, you locked down after getting in another off-topic barb today about what others said to you of me, which you characterized as negative. Needless to say, I have much documented proof of positive things said about me in Fauna as well, but I guess that did not serve your purpose? Here's the last post of that thread, by Wendy:
Quote:
Jim I will not debate this with you here, take it to HELL if you like. I have had a problem with how to talk "at" and "down" and not to people within your post. There is no specific thread, your attitude was mentioned by other members to me whom I had bragged about you to. I then looked at a few post, did see your point in a lot of threads but did NOT like the attitude and tone and I told you.
This thread will now be LOCKED since it is no longer about fruit flies but about how I feel your advise and tips would be better taken if posted in a non condesending way.
|
You attack my character in that thread by innuendo, and going way off topic, and now don't want to "debate" when I defend my character and disagree with you ! BTW, I am not a member of HELL, and never will be. My opinion of it is that it is where too many low-life's play.
I still wish you well Wendy. You and I BOTH have detractors, as does anyone who has posted in Fauna with any frequency. Agreed? Look at how you tried to emphasize my detractors so as to discredit me in the thread which you locked down. You acknowledge that I did try to keep the issue private by PM'ing you early on, and that YOU chose to go public with all the off-topic silliness, for which you eventually locked down the thread, rather than discuss it in PM's. From back when we had a better communication relationship, we have talked specifically about people who had spoken negatively of you in the past. You brought it up. With 3600 posts or so, you have been in some real barn-burners, have you not? And you have detractors, do you not? And you thought many of them unfair, did you not? And now its you, pretending that a few who do not care for me (rest assured my opinion of them is none too high either), is worthy of being brought into a discussion here when you and I are debating chameleon husbandry, because you chose to make unsupported criticisms in two threads, and I asked for the information which would lend credence to your criticisms, which you did not offer, or inaccurately quoted the writings of others when you did. It was a chameleon debate, and this is the place for it. You made it the attack I have referred to above.
I have plenty of support in this site Wendy. I believe and hope that you do too. The last thing I would do is take the opinions of a few who did not care for you and use it to undermine you in a thread.
It would be neither fair nor accurate. But it didn't take you long to reach for such cheap ammo. After the discussions we had about specific negative things that others said about you, can you imagine what you would think if it had been I who took the same foolish words of others and attempted to belittle you here? I don't back away from a single position I have taken in opposition to those who have been whispering in your ear. I was as snug as a bug in a rug in my ethical debates with them, and won't compromise them for anybody. No doubt your respect for me has gone way down Wendy, for one reason or another. Oh well. But if I took some of the opinions others have aimed at you in past posts, and used them here against you, how low could we go, eh? Think about it, for it goes both ways.
I am still glad that Rich gave you this opportunity. I still wish you well. I hope to still be able to learn until the day I die. But for all my faults, and detractors, I am not as quick to the gutter as many here, if ever in the gutter. The things I could write if I were. Good luck Wendy, and I mean it.
Linear Mode
