Where is Mixture?

[One Outsider]

Sure, Ellie, sure.

[Ellie Vater]

One Outsider. Can't be doing with this. Bye.

[crewmeal]

Mixture thanks for all your help over the years, I've certainly taken your knowledge onboard. No doubt you'll be watching from the wings and having a good laugh about future posts.

Remember negative comments and insults posted by those are only there to get a reaction. Ignore them and they usually go away. In my experience I've found many are very good with their fingers on a keyboard, but when it comes to meeting up they are so so shy and wouldn't say 'boo to a goose'

[ExXB]

Or use the ignore user option. You no longer see their posts. Lowers my blood pressure!

[Ancient Observer]

As a computer ignoramus, I will miss both Mixture and Mr Bracknell. In fact, I've been missing Mr Bracknell for some time.
Maybe he'll come back when he gets a better mbps?

Thanks to both for help in the past.

As to mental health issues, I get enough of that from SWMBO, and two now "grown up" children, so I have been trained over the years to ignore that sort of comment.

[KBPsen]

Mike Bracknell could dispense advice without the arrogance, rudeness and condescension that Mixture more often than not resorted to. It was unnecessary and uncalled for. You'll have to be a flagellant to miss that form of "dry wit".

Regularly losing it when a certain brand wasn't given sufficient praise wasn't normal behavior either.

[Cameronian]

It's all so sad. mixture, Mike Bracknell and quite a few others have taken the trouble to attempt to set me on the straight and narrow quite a few times and it was always much appreciated. I am not able to say if a different approach to moderation would have brought a happier outcome - I am also in awe of the moderators who devote themselves to such a thankless task - but I am sure that due note will have been taken so, perhaps, the clock can be turned back...

Courtesy costs so little and, as has so often been said over the years, is the mark of the man.

Toujours la politesse!

[mixture]

First off, I appreciate all the positive comments above, and indeed I truely miss helping out many of the "faces" I recognise from the comments.

However, I also note the negative comments from those who wish to dance on my grave and sing 'ding,dong, the witch is gone'. Not unexpected given the Marmite sentiment for me.

So for now I intend to stick by my decision.

The reason I dropped by once more is because I couldn't let this one pass:

Mike Bracknell could dispense advice without the arrogance, rudeness and condescension that Mixture more often than not resorted to.

As far as I was concerned, I made it clear ample times, people had three choices :

1. They could spend hours or days on Googoo researching their problem, and trying to sort the wheat from the chaff ... followed by hours or days wasting their time infront of their computer trying to apply their new found "knowledge".
2. They could pay someone to solve their problem
3. They could come here, take the benefit of my free advice based on many years on the front line, but in return, as I said so many times, I was not going to wrap my advice in fluffy words. So, for example, if someone was too lazy to do the most basic of backups, despite me banging on about backups innumerable times, I would tell them like it is. Similarly if people started bashing Apple because it was the fashionable thing to do, then I would tell them like it is. Quite frankly, in all the years I've been on PPRuNe, I don't think I've seen one decent anti-Apple post, its all been Apple bashing by people who obviously have no clue what they are on about.

It is also interesting that you compare me to Mike Bracknell, and say he dispensed advice with a style that you found more acceptable.

Well, you know why Mike Bracknell isn't here any more ?

Yes, that's right. He got hounded out too by people who thought they knew better or turned to personal attacks.

That's why it's largely guaranteed Mike Bracknell won't be back, and is no doubt the reason I won't be either.

As I said in my original post on this thread. All of us technical types were very happy to come here in our spare time and offer you guys help.

However when a minority decided it would be more fun to bite the hands that fed them, they spoilt it for the majority. I speak for myself, and no doubt others too, when I say we've got better things to do with our time than put up with that sort of nonsense.