July 18, 2004

FAIR WARNING

Anonymous or pseudononymous comments will, in future, most likely be deleted, especially if they involve abusing other bloggers.

If you want to engage in one-upmanship, ad hominems and personal attacks, please find another place to do your worst.

Posted by mark at July 18, 2004 06:32 PM | TrackBack
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but he started it, dad.

Posted by: high court judge at July 18, 2004 07:28 PM

LOL....

He may well have done, but at least he put his name to it, too.

I don't want to be censorious, but look how that thread started out --- lots of great ideas, especially from MC --- and look out how it ended up.

I'm not blaming anyone, and I'm well aware of how certain parties attract if not unconsciously seek out acrimony, but I just don't feel personal arguments are particularly helpful, positive or interesting; nor do I think this is the best forum on which to conduct them.

Posted by: mark k-p at July 18, 2004 08:21 PM

lots of great ideas, especially from MC

He's a condescending, British Sea Power-loving Time Out hack, furgodsake.

Posted by: Andreas Beyer at July 18, 2004 08:35 PM

Maybe so, but he's a fantastic writer, anyone can see that, and, equally evidently, he really knows his stuff.

Come now. Admit it.

Posted by: mark at July 18, 2004 08:52 PM

If his judgement's that bleeding useless then he could hardly "know his stuff".

Posted by: Andreas Beyer at July 18, 2004 09:03 PM

i didn't read that thread until the end, when it started to become a exchanges of injuries i give up by boredom.
Marcello Carlin didn't have need for advocates, he can do it himself and better, but you (anonimous) guys just don't have an inch of his great writing skill, not an ounce of his LOVE for music. I enjoy reading him so much, should he care or not, even when his (always very competent) opinion on this or that singer/music are opposite or differ from mine, more even so probably.
And hey, i grow out of insulting people because listen different music from me long time ago.
Cool down, relax.

francesco

Posted by: francesco at July 18, 2004 09:15 PM

Well, you know I disagree with him about BSP, but then judgement and knowledge are not the same thing.

He's certainly not a hack, that's ridiculous. His writing brings music alive, surely that's incontestable.

Posted by: mark k-p at July 18, 2004 09:17 PM

but then judgement and knowledge are not the same thing

So you originally meant that Carlin deserves our admiration for his compendious knowledge/enormous record collection?

Posted by: Andreas Beyer at July 18, 2004 09:32 PM

Partly yeh. What's wrong with having compendious knowledge?

That and his writing ability are two things to admire him for.

Posted by: mark at July 18, 2004 09:36 PM

But not necessarily his judgement.

Glad we got that one cleared up. Phew.

Posted by: Andreas Beyer at July 18, 2004 09:48 PM

Not necessarily his judgement, which is far from my saying that his jugement is suspect. It just means that I don't always concur with it.

Posted by: mark at July 18, 2004 10:10 PM

Which is how it should be.

Posted by: mark at July 18, 2004 10:11 PM

Posted by: Andreas Beyer at July 18, 2004 10:22 PM

That was Mark, Marcello and I having a great big hug.

Posted by: at July 18, 2004 10:24 PM

This is just beyond depressing. Mark, please block the ISP addresses of both Beavis and Butthead or else I'm not going to bother commenting on your blog any further.

Posted by: at July 19, 2004 10:22 AM

sorry, that was me.

Posted by: Marcello Carlin at July 19, 2004 10:22 AM

I'm not going to block the IP addresses, Marcello. But any more attacks on you will be deleted on a case by case basis.

Posted by: mark at July 19, 2004 11:16 AM

Have it your way, Mark, it's your blog.

Bye.

Posted by: Marcello Carlin at July 19, 2004 11:37 AM

It makes little difference really Marcello whether I block the IPs or delete the comments manually. All abuse of you will be deleted from now on, but I am not willing to block the IPs because I retain hope that those two correspondents will discourse on other subjects than just yourself.

Posted by: mark at July 19, 2004 12:06 PM

I'll comment as I see fit, Mark.

Posted by: Andreas Beyer at July 19, 2004 12:27 PM

See what I mean?

Oh well, if that's the company you want to keep, then you're welcome to them. I'm out of here. Bye.

Posted by: Marcello Carlin at July 19, 2004 02:24 PM

Come now. Surely ultimatums are as petty as name calling... as Jack Nicholson says in Batman, can't we all just try and get along?

Posted by: Philip at July 19, 2004 03:03 PM

Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.

Posted by: high court judge at July 19, 2004 08:40 PM

Indeed, Philip, although you'll get nothing but lumps for trying to be the voice of reason. There's something about internet arguments that makes them collapse into rabid flame wars after about 16 posts.

I'm not sure blocking IPs is the answer. I'm sure there are countless ways around this. Besides, most dial-up users don't use a fixed IP address.

And if you will discuss Morrissey you're asking for trouble. You should pick safe topics like foorball, Iraq and gay marriage....

Posted by: amblongus at July 19, 2004 08:48 PM

Thanks Amblongus. Can that be the last word on this depressing thread?

Posted by: mark at July 19, 2004 08:55 PM