Curt,
You essentially say above that the "flame fests" are the result of everyone thinking they're right but people not wanting to cease trying to prove that. Ok, fine. It essentially sounds like "it takes two to tango". You've further more established that we should be courteous and respectful. Also fine.
Now someone comes along and tosses out my name in a way that I find to be a bit insulting. What do you do? Nothing. Fine. You don't have to. Consider this though:
1) I have absolutely not been one of the posters that participated the most in this thread. Probably not by far. You might see some other FGMembers belonging to that category, as well as some others like Hooray, Thorsten, and wlbragg or so (I didn't count). So, it's pretty damn interesting that you let someone sling mud like that on the assumption that I've sort of polluted this thread when in fact I've barely participated in it, relatively speaking (again, I didn't count, but feel free to).
2) I notice that you directed this at me specifically. I don't recall you saying the same to anyone on "the other side" of this discussion. I don't recall you telling Thorsten too cool it or to walk away. If it takes two to tango and if everyone is always right then it'd have made more sense to either make that a blanket statement or to tell us both.
3) Lastly, I notice the following:
curt wrote in Mon Sep 12, 2016 4:16 pm:Hi Hooray,
fgmembers will always try to flip our words around. They
fancy themselves to be very clever debaters, and they are sort of, except often they are so clever for the sake of cleverness that
their dis-ingenuousness and utter lack of respect of people here leaks through. If I speak of respect, they will claim they are the ones being disrespected.
You led with that, and then continued with;
curt wrote in Mon Sep 12, 2016 4:16 pm: If not noticing your own disrespectful actions, and feeling disrespected by others is an excuse to outright disrespect others in return, then this is just part of the whole downward spiral these conversations with fgmembers always take.
There's more than a bit of irony in the above.
Oh, and 4) You chose not to comment on the direct quote by Thorsten in favor of keeping this to a meta-discussion about the discussion, or "arguing about arguing" as you put it....
"You are quite within the letter of the GPL license - so you may do whatever you please "
But you're right. None of this changes anything, so I'll just be quiet which is exactly what you want. Just be aware that you're part of the problem as per your very own description ironically.