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> Re: the negative feedback you're getting.
>
> I don't get it myself. Maybe some of my Ego has died. But at any rate... All I make
> of it is that it's 99% likely they're UP on whatever's going on. Like, let's say if
> you were to go up to famous chef Gordon Ramsey, and you tell him a dish he made could
> use more salt. Or like handing a firefighter that's armed with a hose a paper cup of
> water to help fight the fire.
>
> Sorry if those are false equivalencies, but I can't think of anything else.
>
> Obviously, it's not your intention to bother anyone. But (as it was said somewhere
> else) it's up to whoever if they feel like they're being bothered.
>
> Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying this to scold you. Why some people are so easily
> perturbed - I guess that's something I lack the ability to empathize with. Some
> people get a twisted sense of delight from such opportunities and proceed to egg
> their victims on. Especially when it comes so effortlessly.
>
> Then there's the idea of reacting to the slightest occurrence, no matter how innocent
> your intentions were, in an over-the-top manner in order to dissuade any other people
> from doing the thing you did. Think of it as if you were a scrawny guy that was sent
> to prison. You could be cellblock's bitch for passing around. But if you get off on
> the right foot - you'll greatly decrease your chances of being harassed. So gouge out
> the eyes of the first person to glare at you and eat their eyeballs. From that point
> on - nobody is going to mess with "that psycho!"
>
> So when whoever says you're harassing them by invoking their sacred name in unholy
> posting rituals - if they let YOU get away with it, then hundreds might try to get
> away with it too. That's just opening the flood-gates (their notification inbox) to a
> heap of trouble, and in the end, nobody in their right mind would want that.
>
> Edit: How that relates to the example. By flipping out when someone uses your name -
> other people will be like; "Woah! Remind me to not even wave at that guy if I should
> see him walking down the street. He might slit my throat!"
>
> -
>
> TL;DR Just wait to be pleasantly surprised with whatever may come to MAME. Expect
> nothing and you'll never be disappointed.

In this case it's more that they've had an answer, multiple times. They've been told that the only one who can give any kind of status update is Phil. Phil doesn't want to be bothered about it. Wait, see what happens, maybe something, maybe nothing.

Sending PMs, calling out other devs, asking all over the place when you already have the only answer you're going to get isn't logical. The only reason to do this is to try and get other people to put pressure on Phil. That helps nothing.

This is like some creepy guy asking everybody else about some girl he wants to get with, even after she's said she's not interested, or needs time to think about it. Highlighting some random comment I made in a stream months ago is creepy, it's stalker-like and it comes across as harassment, not only of me, but of Phil. This is not OK behaviour.