Wish: Fix some useless features.. and something about FFSdebugger
Gwill:
Quote from: WandaAnn on 2008 March 14, 21:52:29
Not everyone is as Awesome as many of the people are here. When I have encountered people with problems and they couldn't find answers elsewhere, I've suggested coming to this site to get answers. They have refused. Too many rather put up with the problem than post here for needed help. They don't want to become "targets".
This is a darn good site, with problems that aren't addressed elsewhere. Information that isn't available elsewhere. I have learned a lot by reading the information here which has been a valuable help to me. Since this is the best site around, I feel badly that there are others who intentionally stay away.
Do your research, ask politely, don't grovel (no, it doesn't help), and provide all relevant information (and for fuck's sake, leave out the irrelevant), then you'll get answers, and not be ridiculed.
If you come running in here like you own the place, blame dyslexia for your laziness, talk like a 12-year-old who types with their thumbs, or ask questions that are common knowledge and could have been acquired with two keywords and google, then you will be poked with big sharp sticks and told to fuck off.
That's why there's a high level of competence here: We scare the sheep away, and leave only those with more than average brain power.
Alexx:
Quote from: WandaAnn on 2008 March 14, 21:52:29
Not everyone is as Awesome as many of the people are here. When I have encountered people with problems and they couldn't find answers elsewhere, I've suggested coming to this site to get answers. They have refused. Too many rather put up with the problem than post here for needed help. They don't want to become "targets".
Main reason why I so like "matyism"-almost everyone here can to become "target".And in this case...
Than more awesome person is,then more the fear to look stupidly. ;D
LizzyJ:
Quote from: Quetzkotl on 2008 March 14, 22:29:58
I just had to comment that I found it somewhat adorable that jonayla found the forum experience here memorable enough to rant about it at length in her blog. http://iamleftovers.blogspot.com/
That was interesting reading, so the dyslexia and trust fund is just testing us. :'(
Kyna:
Quote from: WandaAnn on 2008 March 14, 21:52:29
Not everyone is as Awesome as many of the people are here. When I have encountered people with problems and they couldn't find answers elsewhere, I've suggested coming to this site to get answers. They have refused. Too many rather put up with the problem than post here for needed help. They don't want to become "targets".
This is a darn good site, with problems that aren't addressed elsewhere. Information that isn't available elsewhere. I have learned a lot by reading the information here which has been a valuable help to me. Since this is the best site around, I feel badly that there are others who intentionally stay away.
When I visit a new forum on the internet, one of the first things I do is read the FAQ & the stickies. Then I lurk for a good long while before I post. I've been doing this since my first visit to usenet (which was probably before the OP was born).
It's common sense to get a feel for what the group culture is before you go barging in. It's not a case of other people not being as Awesome as many of the people here. I know I'm not awesome (even the cat in my av is more awesome than me - and she's our doofus cat), I just use a little bit of common sense and old-fashioned manners when I visit a new forum.
If it is a case of having an urgent question, such as when I couldn't get another game to work and visited their help forums for the first time, then I replace the lurking with searching the forum. In that case, not finding my answer after searching, I then posted a respectful post requesting help.
I've come across a lot of 12 year olds on the internet who don't want to find their own answers, they want other people to find the answers for them. Do schools no longer teach kids about research? My view is that if someone is too damn lazy to use the search button, then why should I bother to search for them? Their problem is obviously not important enough for them to do their own searching, and since it's not my problem it's considerably less important to me.
Yes we are a mean & nasty lot, but we also expect people seeking help to use basic internet etiquette. You'll notice Jonayla is getting a lot of criticism here for her lack of manners. If you want other people to go out of their way to help you, then you need to ask for help, not demand it because of your admitted laziness.
EDIT: Oh, and I've read that blog. Strange how her blog doesn't mention that she posted she was lazy before she even wrote her request. In fact, her blog implies that she does do her own research. If she's that good at research, she would have found our WCIF thread.
morriganrant:
Apparently, you are all rude because you are North American.
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