lacking follow-through

[castironpi]

On Sep 7, 5:45 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:34:55 +1000, James Mills wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > This is the strangest post I've seen
> > since I've joined this list (only
> > recently). What the ?
>
> Oh don't mind castironpi, many people think he's an IRC bot with some
> experimental AI features that escaped onto Usenet *grins*. If you think
> that post of his was strange, you haven't seen anything yet. Many people
> have kill-filed him, and never even see his posts.
>
> A word to castironpi: you just suggested you will pester the list to get
> a response. It's behaviour like that which gets you kill-filed. If you
> would spend one tenth of the effort that you spend on understand Python
> on understanding human psychology, you will probably get on with others
> much better and find fewer people claiming you're a bot.
>
> Even if you yourself don't understand how others behave and expect you to
> behave, think of it as an intellectual puzzle: how can I fool the strange
> hairless apes into accepting me into their herd?
>
> --
> Steven

First, gauge their persistence tolerance.  Some people are not
persistent enough.  I don't want to annoy you, and I want to show
interest, but of course no more than I actually feel.  Are my
standards too low, or too high?

Second, debate the reverse psychology tack.  Claim I'm a bot to shake
their belief?  Or call them bots?  Perhaps they are.  Bots with
cooties.  Yes.