JUST GOT HACKED

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 02-10-13 04:30, Steven D'Aprano schreef:
> On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:24:35 +1000, Daniel Stojanov wrote:
> 
>> 2) I just signed up the this mailing list. To the regulars, is this what
>> normally happens on this list?
> 
> No.
> 
>> 3) I'm a bit late to the party. Is Nikos a real sysadmin or is this some
>> horrible inside joke I don't get?
> 
> Nikos is not a real sysadmin. He is a wanna-be web developer who barely 
> knows Python. He is arrogant and annoying. Unfortunately he is not the 
> real problem here. The real problem is a bunch of vigilantes have 
> appointed themselves the anti-Nikos lynch mob and take every opportunity 
> they can to mock him, insult him, bait him into responding to their 
> taunts, and even make public death threats against him. And now it 
> appears that one of them may have hacked into his web site in an attempt 
> to put him out of business.

That is your slant of things. My take is that the real problem is those
that keep spoon feeding the help vampire, collaborating to the nuissance
and encouraging Nikos to come back.

> These vigilantes have decided to save this mailing list from Nikos, even 
> if it means destroying it. Nikos at least does ask Python questions. The 
> vigilantes hardly talk about Python at all, they're too busy laughing at 
> Nikos and insulting him. Nikos doesn't learn from his errors; neither do 
> the vigilantes, no matter how many times they have failed they are sure 
> that if they mock him just a little bit harder he will go away. He won't, 
> they keep baiting him even more, and this place is going to shit thanks 
> to them.

Maybe the people venting their frustration think the mailing list is
already partly gone to shit. So why should they care it is going to shit
too for those who collaborate to the nuisance. The latter didn't care
much the mailing list was going to shit for the first. The latter only
started to care about the shit level when they themselves though it
became too high for them. And then they complain about those venting
their frustration but they won't look at how their own behaviour
contributes to the frustration of those venting.

-- 
Antoon.