Re: Has a line been crossed by this user

[monarch]

Sometimes computer users with a moderate amount of experience like to show off.. and they do things like create the aforementioned buttons, or zillions of lines of multicoloured sigs, or start installing their favourite desktop themes on their friends' computers without asking..

All this behaviour is consistant with the old phrase "sometimes knowing a little is knowing too much". I remember, when at university, seeing a post on the wall about the stages of knowing LaTeX.. from newbie up to wizard. And wizards truly were wizards..

With more training and life experience comes the maturity and understanding that one does not need to "show off" their knowledge.. when the time comes it will be revealed plain and simple.

Another sign of maturity is understanding that not everybody wants to be bothered by one's acts of impressivism.. that multiline signature might actually be annoying to a wizard, rather than impressive to the neophytes usually encountered.

I think that when you see things like this that annoy you.. my advice would be to count to ten, and realise that what you're observing is, for the most part, peacock feathers and an insecurity on the part of the person that is annoying you. They will, of course, see it differently.. until a wizard casts a spell on them..

boooom!

[cbrandtbuffalo]

I tend to agree with [id://monarch] here. The user in question has crossed a line, but I don't think it's a 'kick him off the site' line.

Rather, he's crossed the line of general etiquette. Perhaps your node might make him realize he is drawing as much negative attention from the monks as he is any sort of 'gee whiz' attention from jr.-level people. The fact that he yells 'I want attention!' into the CB every time someone hits his node should be enough negative attention to lead most monks to just avoid him and his node.

[jcoxen]

This might just be a case of Hanlon's Razor.

Jack

[PhilHibbs]

but I don't think it's a 'kick him off the site' line.

Of course not, and I hope that nothing in my posts have implied that.