Olin Lathrop wrote:
>> Help should be offered graciously or not at all.
>
> If you really believe that, then you'd better stay out of design reviews,
> especially when your design is being reviewed.

This doesn't make any sense. I conduct or sit in on design reviews all the 
time. Sometimes the debates become heated, but nobody ever gets called a 
moron.

You make it sound like you make your engineers' life hell. I have a hard 
time believing that in Real Life you let yourself insult or publicly 
embarrass people you work with.


> If you just withold any comment to a demanding ingrate on the list, then
> they won't know their attitude prevented getting more responses.  This is
> especially true since there always seem to be a few people here that can't
> help showing off they know the answer instead of restraining themselves to
> make the list a better place long term for all.  The OP may never know
> better responses could have been had.

You can tell him offlist.


> By telling the OP that he's perceived
> as a jerk and why is actually doing him a favor, although he may not think
> that in the short term.

I don't buy this "they'll thank me later" logic. There are plenty of people 
on this list who still, years after the fact, resent how you treated them or 
a fellow member.

Stop kidding yourself: you don't do it for the benefit of the offender, or 
for the betterment of the community, but only for your own enjoyment.

Bottom line: I am strongly in favor of your proposal. When you insult 
someone, admins ban you for X days and make a public announcement to the 
effect. Second offense, X + N days, etc.

Vitaliy 

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