For baldgye

it was quite clear in your previous comments that you have no intention of 'debating' anything, and that your 'facts' bear no place in the real world due to there complete lack of any kind of substance.

Its nice you made an entire post just for me, but its time for you to move on.

Give me a chance to at least clean up the mess I made. I wouldn't blacklist you even if you deserved it.

"I'm not playing with you cos you don't die" is about as immature as "My dad is bigger than your dad".

Debating/arguing/opining about a topic SHOULD NOT prompt either party to one or other or both of those schoolyard 'defences'.

Here's one more..."if you can't stand the heat keep out of the kitchen".  Anyone entering a debate about the comparative attributes of Mac vs Windows is guaranteed lively responses, not all of which will be from a standpoint of intelligent observation and/or life experience....

Learn to deal or choose another topic....;)

Thank you Jafo. Good points.

If that was aimed at me, the point of the topic was to point out that you cant compare them... I have this post on another blog site too and that one has managed to be up for longer and has not induced the replys that I got on here...

...but if this sort of behavior is cool on this site and is to be expected (from a 33yr old no less) then I'll keep my posts to other sites.

Dude, take a chill pill. Regardless of the comments, you can always ignore them. Just because they are there does not meanit's against the law to ignore them.

I'm goin to another thread, this one is creepin me out

Keep in mind this forum is cross linked to many other sites. I didn't see your post as comparing them as more of a few reasons why Windows is better. But that is just me.

Sorry for the double post but in my defense I made some great points that others agreed on. What did you do remove the article?

Feel free to nuke this thread as well.    

It's aimed at everyone and anyone.

The civility of a thread is only as good as the respondents it attracts.  If, for example someone appears to have more 'success' with a similar blog elsewhere it's likely it just hasn't attracted the 'wrong' moths ..... yet.

The time-line for moth attraction depends purely upon the blog's exposure/popularity...;)

For the record I found the other blog and that article. However it is on a gaming site and I don't want to stir things up there no matter how bad the facts of the article are.

Thanks Jafo.

also, for the record, I was following that thread that baldgye started...and eventually deleted, and he was the one in the wrong (I'm not referring to the lack of quality in the blog post either). I finally had to post when baldgye attacked Linux...basically what I got upset about is that he stated that Linux is horrible and that the command line had to be used to install software. This is very much inaccurate (I can't say that about the horrible part, as that is opinion and he might actually believe it) because the command line (terminal in Linux) is not manditory anymore, and most new users don't use it at all. It is still used by "old hands" who prefer it, but just about everything can be done the point-and-click way.  As far as installing software, baldgye actually attacked one of the best points about Linux...nearly all software can be installed with just a couple of mouse clicks and an internet connection.  There is a package manager that keeps track of every file installed on Linux, and "knows" what files are required for what programs...and makes sure that all files are all the proper versions for each particular app...this is much more effecient than anything Windows has come up with yet.

The next thing I know, the thread is deleted. I think it's pretty immature to react that way to opposition. If you can't handle criticism, you should stick to playing games...and leave the blog scene alone.

Ditto...

Where the hell are the pacifiers when ya need 'em??????

My wife's brother is the real 'computer-literate' person in our family....coder and 'IT Guy' in various National Banks, etc ... and one day I saw him at his machine typing what looked like dos at a command prompt...monochrome screen and all...to which I asked "What's that?" 

His reply was "Windows Server 2000".

"What ...no GUI?"

"Nah...don't use them....prefer it 'direct'".

Takes all sorts....;)

EEEuuuwww

For my 2p worth, I think any site which allows threads and posts to be deleted by the op should not cross post to sites which do not allow that to happen.

I know in the past I've posted from either WinCustomize or Stardock and had posts deleted, something which I find extremely offensive.

For me, living in a country which has free speech, deleting posts because someone disagrees with you is just plain wrong.

Unfortunately that does mean sometimes you have to put up with the occasional prick...

It wasn't a Windows Vs Mac, or MS Vs Apple... yeah people just posted comment about how one was sooo much better than the other, and Kona, you never made a signel coherant comment on the topic. No one thought you had a single point that made sence never mind agree with.

All people did was see the topic name, and then post some arbitrary comment. And yeah the Linux guy, I was trying to get acorss the same point with not being able to compare Linux to Windows or OSX but for diffrent reasons.

No one bothered to read what I put, and why I put it on the blog in the 1st place, and just ranted off these random comments about why there fav OS is better than Windows. Every other comment required me to then reply to them trying to explain that it was a comparison to show that they are uncomparable (think thats a word), but no one ever read the replys and I was just waisting my time anyway.

But at least you can winge and cry about it in here

Your article wasn't about how the two can not be compared. Your so called facts about Macs were mostly wrong. All I did was call you on it then you go off and pull the article and blacklist me. Pretty low move. Perhaps you should reread Fuzzy Logic's post above yours.

I know a few other people who think I gave good points and defended myself well.

Oh and by the way OSX isn't my favorite OS. I use Linux. I just dislike it when people don't get the facts straight.

And yes I've had my stuff jumped on for not having facts straight. Did I delete the post or article? Nope. Did I blacklist people? Nope.

Talk to you later.

Because there is an option in the site for a blacklist? where? How?

There is over at Joeuser. Another example why forums should not cross post.

Ah ok...thanks

I like how you editied the posts original content too

Now you're just attacking kona for the sake of attacking.

When you post in certain categories, you are not posting to your own little blogging world, you are going on a public forum. This means people have a reasonable right to respond or discuss any topic posted in this way.

Having a dummy spit and deleting the thread because someone doesn't agree with you is hardly a mature reaction.