Truly appreciate the pull back/courtesy. Sincerely don’t mean to continue the argument, but I gotta just say this last one thing, just because I’m feeling a little beat up here on Lemmy, again …

So don’t be surprised when you get brigaded over a BASIC syntax error, because from our perspective it came across like a 22 year old who was pretending to know what the old days were like, and making an irrelevant comment on a post about a rather tragic part of computing history. Fair enough, we done.

You know, instead of just assuming negatively, you could have taken what I said at face value, instead of double-downing on your attack. You publically called me out as a liar on a public forum, without even having done one Internet search yourself on my name, though you chastised me on not doing a search myself. That’s a pretty severe thing to do to another human being at an online social gathering.

It doesn’t do well for Lemmy if nobody wants to ever comment on anything, especially if they make a simple mistake while doing so, because they’ll get ripped apart by others, the same others who would probably wonder later on why there’s not enough posts/comments activity on Lemmy. People’s default ‘perspective’ is negative here, and we’re supposed to be building a more friendlier than Reddit place here.

On top of that, someone else had replied about an error code because of the semi-colons, and I had replied back with a joke reply about the compiler accepting it (joke being BASIC is interpreted), so I was hoping that would have been enough to signal comedy (even if bad comedy) and make this a non-situation.

You know, the real irony is, when I couldn’t remember to keep or remove the semi-colons (I really did take ten seconds to try and remember, and then got pissed off at myself for getting old), I finally thought “Fuck it, I’ll leave them in”, as I’d figure that they’d augment the comedic shit-postiness even more, as well as my previous statement of not wanting to take the time to search as I was busy looking for someone.

Most of the Lemmy user base is your age, who remember the dial-up days of the Internets.

I remember my Apple 300 baud modem well, and dialing into many BBS. Also, CompuServe (never tried Prodigy though). And of course we all did AOL.

Anyway, I’m done/exhausted, as now I’ve had to defend my programming career/views on both a certain video searching technique, as well as BASIC coding (and as well as the Falklands Las Malvinas Islands). Lemmy is a fucking tough place to socialize at. 😜

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