> > When you threaten to stop helping newbies in the subject matters that
> > you are so brilliant ......

> This was about Olin, but it applies to anyone.

> Why "a pox on you" if someone chooses not to contribute? =A0Why should Ol=
in,
> or anyone, feel obliged to offer free help?

Nobody is compelled, of course, to be helpful in any area. I think
it's more the fact of it being declared openly and somewhat
repetitively that triggered the comment.

Taking one's ball and going home is sometimes socially acceptable -
it's your ball, after all. But, standing around in public waving your
ball and proclaiming loudly and repeatedly that nobody can play with
it because they won't play by your rules does tend to get people's
attention, even if not necessarily in the manner intended.

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TRANSLATION:

It arguably needs to be read in the specific context.
I can't speak for Gus (or Olin) but Olin has specifically and
repeatedly noted that he has stopped helping people because he has
been placed on moderation, and now that he is not on moderation he
says that he will now limit how much he helps people because he
doesn't like the recently promulgated list "rules".

Within that context, I imagine that Gus's poxing may apply to anyone
else who specifically declined to help for that class of reason.

In your case, and similar, I'd guess that Gus would be disinclined to
apply poxing to those who don't help in one area because they are
already busy helping in another. Sounds good to me, anyway.





          Russell

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