[vsnet-chat 7442] re Is vsnet-alert becoming too much of a discussion group?

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So, tosspot features, downloading other folk's ccd observations from the aavso international database, shoving them through peranso and continually noting them on vsnet alert is an Alert then?

Or, say, copying Ooruri-chan's party piece by echoing continuation of superoutbursts and suggesting times series photometry is an alert?

Or declaring an outburst a day after it's already announced?

Or updating a superoutburst list with your observations an alert?

Probably.

I've shown you now how to find the Catalina CVs on your own, you can probably post these to vsnet alert as if you're the one announcing their discovery too, a whole several hours afore, KT due to timezone differentials twixt USA, UK and Japan.  That, in tandem with your outburst updates and superhump period measures should enable vsnet alert to maintain it's alertness.

Now, unsubscribe time for me now that the nova astrometry's in and the folk that weren't aware know where macho and ogle stuff live, potentially very interesting these novae that go boom in epoch photometry covered fields.

Alert can go back to just being Kato-kun asking for superhump measures, and you echoing his style for no readily apparent reason, with no fear of discussions.  Hopefully next time around more folk will have the balls to gripe about your little games like they did this time, although I've had no feedback unfortunately to say whether vsnet admin responded to their complaint.

Hopefully next time I'll hear about you it'll be after others have complained to organisations directly about you, rather than bending my ear about it first.  Done my bit.  Even shown you where to get data, how to go about using it, and where to publish it, and you're still not grateful.  Nor getting it right every time.

Well, keep trying, you'll get there eventually.  Kick the self-aggrandisement habit and you might get the emphasis right.  Before you know it someone might offer you something in reward for your competence, like, oh, I dunno, baa robotic controller post?  You'd like that, wouldn't you?

Or keep up the aggrieved, public, generalised comments, with just that hint of martyrdom to 'em.  Some folk fall for it.  Apparently only for a while though.  Probably fails when they start receiving the private hate mail out of the blue.