Academic feud Part Four- Gloves (and masks) off!
There is one person (and only one) who, despite me explaining very clearly several times how I was going to delete everything they wrote without reading it, continues to try to gate crash a TEFLtastic party they are not invited to, including changing the name they use to try to slip through the net. Luckily or unluckily, they still continue using the same hectoring tone and I can quickly spot them and delete those messages too. Unfortunately, I still feel miffed at wasting another 2 minutes of my life reading what they have written, until I notice the new name and can go back to my old scheme of just skimming past. Here is my latest attempt to free myself of this once and for all:
Dear Glenski (or Joe, or Greg, or whatever- you are incidentally the only person I have ever known not to use a real name on the English Teachers in Japan Yahoo group, no doubt because you could not go around pissing off the important people on that list if they knew who you were)
Let me try once again to make this clear. I have no problems with anyone in the world reading what you have to say about my posts on my blog, I just don’t want to read it myself- any more than I want to spend time with the readers’ letters in the Readers’ Digest or the Daily Mail. Here is my solution:
Set up your own blog, for example on TEFL.net. When you want to comment on what I have said, leave a message that says “Here are my comments” with a link to what you want to say. I will be quite happy to leave that comment in. You can also use that blog in the same way when you, sometimes understandably, get tired of repeating the same answers to the same questions on the many many forums you post on and get snappy. That way everyone can hear what you have to say in the most time efficient way. Except me, who really should be spending his time answering the two questions from readers below…
