Speak for Yourself Please

• From: allythin
• Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:13:49 -0700
• Message-ID: <000TQI64T.000NL4P1M.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

I shouldn't get involved and should just let this
fire burn out but being someone who is actually IN the
chatroom on a regular basis, I felt it was probably my
duty to help to correct a little notion that seems to
be prevalent in the qb community. Now, I've been
coming in there pretty regularly since April, as has
Matt. And in that time, I can probably count on one
hand the amount of times Matt has gotten involved in
the topic of religion, still fewer the times he's
brought it up (a specific example I do not recall). And
throughout the discourse Matt never committed any
transgression of civilized conversation; it was always a
conversation that was very intelligent. Yet, Kristin has
seldom in the last 5 months been in the chatroom to
notice this. So anyone reading this attack on Mr.
Weiner's character should take her comments with a grain
of salt at best: They are not made with the best
information. So my question is this: Did Matt suddenly tone
his act down shortly before I joined? I don't find
that to be very likely. I do think that this negative
attitude of Matt is spreading simply because people are
listening too much to rumor or people's bad impressions
(and honestly I had a bad first impression of Matt
too, but then I actually talked with him a bit), and
not having actual conversations with Matt. And for
the record not everyone is getting fed up with that
messenger: SPEAK FOR YOURSELF AND ONLY THAT PERSON.