Ban Xah Lee

[Roedy Green]

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 14:52:02 -0800 (PST), Xah Lee <xahlee at gmail.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>
>I consider this post relevant because i've been perennially gossiped
>about in comp.lang.* groups today and in the past 5 or 10 years, many
>of the threads mentioning my name are not started by me nor did i ever
>participate.

The reason you are unpopular has nothing to with what you say.  It is
that you don't participate in discussions. You just pontificate from
on high. It implies a sort of haughty superciliousness that people are
reacting to.
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