randomuser.833: Oh, one of the right person who feels being hit directly. Burned his fingers already in one sub, so lets try it somewhere else.
john_hatcher: Maybe Imade myself not clear, what I was talking about. My point was towards you ridiculing the boycot, not any old topics, that have nothing to do with this, but I should have known that you will always bring up old stuff, because yo seem to live in the past. Sorry, you can hold your grudge as long as you like, because I have a different opinion than you, but that seems very childish.
randomuser.833: About the thread in general.
That is more like the childish "I will hold my breath until..." reaction then anything useful.
Big lists with names on them usually don't do much (even less if they only got few names).
What you can do always depends on the situation.
When talking about the points in the boycotting thread, some are just stupid. For example the neglected offline installers?
Those have always lacked a little bit behind but where never more or less neglected then today...
Coming up with such a point won't help in any kind of discussion...
john_hatcher: You are right about the op, but that was not what I was talking about.
Again, I'm asking that question. What will you do, if you see something is wrong and you want to change it? Just go on as always? Don't think, that this will solve anything.
And it doesn't look more to you like being summoned? Because that happends on a regular base with you.
Even more when it is something you could (again) point towards yourself, even if it was not the case (like it happend many times before).
And for sure, people are judged by what they did in the past.
And we have a past.
I would not post a thread into the forum, that is made up with many tasks, that all will have to be solved to my likening, while all things I write about are maximum claims that for sure nobody can fulfill (even less all of them).
Things happen in dialog, not based on maximum claims from one side and that side already starts with a "not crossing this line".
Nobody can and nobody will take such "openings" of a "discussion" serious, because it is no discussion at all.
The only thing you can do there is saying good by and wish those people the best on their way in the future.
And how and to who to talk about a certain topic is always a question of the situation, who to be addressed and what you want to archive.
You want a general way to do things?
Forget it.
But the very first stepp is, not to open things up with maximum claims AND "I won't move a single stepp from here".
In your case (because you are on the boycott list too) "And I will hold my breath until you do" too.
To be honest, the only thing I and GoG can do here is saying Goodbye.
So, Goodbye.