Tom Shelton
8/26/2010 3:22:00 PM
Mike Williams formulated on Thursday :
> "Tom Shelton" <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> wrote in message
> news:i55t50$j9i$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>> Mike Williams wrote on 8/26/2010 :
>>> Does anybody know who I can write to at Microsoft in order
>>> to ask them to stop one of their own MVPs, PAUL CLEMENT,
>>> from trolling this newsgroup. He is a disgrace to himself and he
>>> is both a disgrace and a liability to Microsoft and he is bringing
>>> the Microsoft MVP system into disrepute.
>>> Mike
>>
>> As a former MVP yourself, Mike - you should know.
>
> Were you ever an MVP, Tom, or were you just a troll?
I was an MVP, yes. It's been a about 4 years ago now. I wasn't really
that active in the community again until about a year or so ago. Too
much real life got in the way :)
>I notice from a recent
> response of yours to one of my messages that you have given up your troll
> activities, which is certainly good news.
Well, let's get something straight... I did not start out trolling. I
only participated in discussions that I did not start. And only jumped
in when I felt that there was FUD and misinformation being posted. I
absolutely did not, as Kevin likes to claim, make a habbit of posting
newer vb answers to vb.classic questions - especially under the guise
of posting to the wrong group.... Anyone willing to do a google search
can confirm that. In fact, you are the one that percipitated that
claim - and that was in the comp.lang.basic.visual.misc, not here.
The only reason I started doing a bit of nose tweaking of late was
because of you and Kevin's over the top responses. I certainly don't
care if you want to continue to use VB.CLASSIC from now until the end
of time. Nor do I care what you think about it. But, your responses
were so over the top as to be funny - but, the problem is that I found
myself becomming a bit of a jerk in the process (or maybe my darker
side began to surface :) ). And, so then it became un-fun. So, the
easist way to avoid confrontation, is to simply refuse to get involved
in certain topics of discussion. And, that's what I'm doing.
> It's a pity that your friend Paul
> Clement,
He's not my friend. I don't know Paul personally.
>who is both an MVP and a troll, does not follow your lead. Is there
> any chance you could persuade him to do so?
Nope. Paul does what Paul does.
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Tom Shelton