I think some developers should get at some time down their high horses. I comment or a question is not meant as degrading their work. It is just a fact seen no more no less, maybe followed by an idiotic question from somebody that may not have had a PHD in Windows API. Telling the user *you are an idiot*, replace your prefix because it's W2000 also W2000 *had never* been used *vergraut mir genauso die Lust* to write any comment about how it had been noticed. Slowly but surely, it takes me any interest in posting my findings about an issue or another, and when being abusive, please in English so that any can read that you are *god* and user are depressing you and it they don't stop then you won't help anymore.
Am 16.03.2008 um 07:11 schrieb Timeout:> I think some developers should get at some time down their high > horses.Do you have a link or two to which incident(s) you are talking about? Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/
On 16/03/2008, Markus Hitter <mah at jump-ing.de> wrote:> > > I think some developers should get at some time down their high > > horses. > > Do you have a link or two to which incident(s) you are talking about? >In other words: [citation needed] http://xkcd.com/285/ Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
I don't want to point the finger at the person who wrote it. It was on an answer of a bug (not mine) that I received per E-Mail yesterday because of a comment on it. I think either the writer of the comment in German will find himself or anyway Dan Kegel because he answered in German that the concerned person made a great job in the patch that was offered. It's better not to put too much oil on the fire. As far as I concerned I removed as many as my comment from Wine as I could because I don't want to see such reaction again on an automatic reply.
Maybe, but to me it's a lottery. There are 2 developer's who are biting my head off every time I come with an awkward question of something in their field (one of them got pretty much moderate in this forum under another name). Of course, I don't have the knowledge to explain it. I just throw a statement with the hope that it will be picked as a line of thought and I get my head bitten of. It's getting a risk for me to even mention a problem in a field when the developers had not gotten that far in working on this specific case. That's like questions about the .NET. I got my head bitten off and got the answer about 4 months later when the mainstream got to this point. I thought it interesting because it was about regsvr, and to me regasm is pretty more the same. If I detail the problem, I am treated as an ignorant. If I just throw a line, I'm treated as an idiot. Either way, now that my software is getting functional, I am not in a hurry to get an answer and I won't even start about cursor problems in a .NET environment.
Bashing developers won't get you anywhere.
Timeout wrote:> I think some developers should get at some time down their high horses. > > I comment or a question is not meant as degrading their work. It is just a fact seen no more no less, maybe followed by an idiotic question from somebody that may not have had a PHD in Windows API. > > Telling the user *you are an idiot*, replace your prefix because it's W2000 also W2000 *had never* been used *vergraut mir genauso die Lust* to write any comment about how it had been noticed. > Slowly but surely, it takes me any interest in posting my findings about an issue or another, and when being abusive, please in English so that any can read that you are *god* and user are depressing you and it they don't stop then you won't help anymore. > > >One comment: We ask that you use English because it is a universal language when working with computers. If you don't know what to say in English, then please use Bablefish or other translation service. The transalation may not be perfect, but it may be enough for us to provide help. BTW, the comment to install on a 'clean .wine' has solved many problems. I do testing for the Wine project and have several .wine directories on my system. Switching between them is as simple as setting the WINEPREFIX= environment variable. How to do this varies upon the shell you are using and the Linux variant you are using and is actually beyond the scope of this mailing list. Again, Google/Yahoo or your favorite Internet search engine is definitely the method to use to find out how to do this. And no one thinks they are *God* on this list, just is that you have to do your homework by reading the FAQ and looking at other documentation, before posting a question here is always a good idea. And yes, I've been told to do so in the past and maybe told to do this in the future. Thank you. James McKenzie