Re: A Problem With GD

Mark Manning <markem@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Uri Guttman wrote:

he insulted your code, not you.

you are not your code. code posted here is open
for review no matter how or who wrote it.

Yes he did - but >I< did not ask him to.


That's how Usenet works. Stuff is posted, then it is commented on.

There is no requirement that the comment correspond with what
the poster wants to be commented on.

Maybe the resulting discussion addresses the OP's problem,
or maybe it doesn't.

The newsgroup does not exist to serve you, it exists to serve
the community.


Again, it was TEST CODE. An example. It was never meant to be some
super-duper, ass kissing, way of doing something.


Being disingenuous like that weakens your argument.

Observing the basics such as pragmas and indenting is hardly
super-duperizing things.

It is seen here as basic common courtesy.


It was just some
thrown together code.


Errr, yes, we could all tell.


But the real problem is - why didn't Mr. Unur focus on fixing the
problem?


Gee, I don't know...

Do you think maybe it was because it was just some thrown together code?

Duh!

If you are not willing to invest a little bit in making it
easier to help you solve your problem, then it is unreasonable
to expect volunteers to invest in it.

Mr. Unur focused on solving _that_ problem, which would help
you with getting answers both now and in the future.

He was being meta-helpful, that is, helping with an issue
bigger than the issue that brought you here.

(not to you, as you seem immune to social pressures, but to
many others reading this thread.
)


Do you call a
help desk expecting them to say if you'd only conform to how they think


There is the root cause of the group's problem with your posts.

This newsgroup is NOT A HELP DESK!

The social dynamic is very different from a help desk.


just say "Here's where the problem is"?


Here's where the problem is:

You think that newsgroups are help desks.


To act as if you own Usenet all
by yourself.


That is a bizarre statement.

This society (newsgroup) has rules about what is socially acceptable.

It is *you* who are acting as if you own Usenet by flat-out
refusing to do things in a socially acceptable manner, and
attempting to change all of us to conform to "your way".

That is why there are several folks on one side of this issue
an just one person on the other side.

It is easier to join us than to fight us.

Just format code for human consumption, and ask the machine for
help before asking hundreds of live humans for help. It isn't
much to ask.


See?


See?


This is the over inflated ego I'm talking about


That is the over inflated ego that everyone else in this
thread is talking about.


I post when and where I please.


That is the over inflated ego that everyone else in this
thread is talking about.

If you take cuts in line, then don't whine when someone
calls you on it.


Which, granted, isn't a whole lot because I keep running into this same
"We own Usenet!" attitude


It is a response to your "I own Usenet!" attitude.

Try acting like a member of a society, and see if the society's
reaction isn't different.


very tiring.


Indeed.


--
Tad McClellan SGML consulting
tadmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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