[This is a record of an exchange between myself and Alan Pigott, who runs a closed group on Facebook called "Dublin, the old days & ways". As it's a closed group, the only way to access the posts and comments is to join, so I sent in a request.] Alan Pigott Hi There received your request to join, Dublin. the Old Days & Ways. Unfortunately , By your profile, it does not seem to be a personal profile. if you have a personal profile, and have an interest in Dublin History, you can re-apply Best regards Alan Pigott Spiorad An Choláiste It is personal and I do very much have an interest in Dublin, my people being from the Liberties. My ID and lack of profile details is for other reasons. [Received notice of admission. Checked out posts. Came across some text of mine without attribution. Gave link to source of text, along with some other links relevant to the online discussion, in a comment. Was promptly ejected from the group.] Alan Pigott Look ! nothing personal. I do not know you, but I did let you into the group, a post I had up, with full history, you immediately uploaded, the same history, to add to the post, for me that is strange behaviour, and i deleted , can you tell me why you did this, ? Spiorad An Choláiste That was my material you had up there with no attribution. Not very nice. I was hoping to participate in the discussion on Medlar and his bridge, which some of your commenters clearly had experience of, but you then appear to have unceremoniously dumped me from the group. Not nice. Alan Pigott Look calm down, I do not know who you are, I put up a post, with information I got from the internet, you immediately repost what I had posted, why ? ... are you the author of the article ? I am a reasonable, man, & I try to explain my actions, I wish you could do the same. as I said I do not have a clue who you are, maybe if you had put up a few friendly inputs, and we had got to know you . it may have been different/ Spiorad An Choláiste Yes. I am the author of the article. It is a summary of a talk I gave in Pearse St. and was asked to do it for Pues Occurrences blog. You will see my name on the byline there. I did not repost the article, I put up a link. Facebook did that. Where did you get it on the internet? Alan Pigott Look, maybe you are a little naive ! I do not know. i will repeat, I do not know you, but I am finding you extremely arrogant, To the question of how did I find the piece, try googling "Patrick Joseph Medlar" and see what comes up. Now go back to rowing with your phone company.... I do have an instinct for knowing arrogant & unsuitable personalities for my group. Spiorad An Choláiste Your call. Alan Pigott Thank you. Kind regards, sorry it wasn't a different outcome. Alan Pigott Spiorad An Choláiste Do I take it then that you have either taken down the offending post or correctly attributed it? Alan Pigott Taken it down. I think that's only fair. but I still think, although an educated man, I think you are a slightly troubled man, perhaps you feel a little under recognised. All I can say is ! all you need to do, is recognise yourself . Best regards Alan Pigott Spiorad An Choláiste Probably wisest & don't need the psycho stuff. If you want to make any further comment you can do so on my blog: http://photopol.blogspot.ie/2015/06/attribution.html Alan Pigott No thanks I don't. As I say I don't doubt your knowledge. But there is a lot more to choosing whom we give an ear to. Maybe I am totally wrong But I cannot just meet you on common ground. But look. You are you and I am myself. So best wishes to yourself and best of luck with your future publishing. Best regards.Alan Pigott [NB: I did not ask how he found it but where on the internet he found it. It is in only one place, on the Pues Occurrences blog and has my byline on it. He chose to duck that one. The reference to the row with the phone company suggests thar when I identified myself as the author he checked back via Pues and my website to my Twitter account. I have been occasionally reminding Three Ireland there that they have still not fully explained their recent five hour outage which they claim was caused by an electrical fault. A minuscule part of my tweets but apparently a convenient one.] 13/14 June 2015 |