[MPlayer-users] Mplayer Build Testing

[Daniel Taylor]

Case in point. I'm a third party commenting on the tone of responses,
yet "RC" feels the need to rip me a new orifice.

My point stands.

RC wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:50:35 -0500
> Daniel Taylor <dtaylor at vocalabs.com> wrote:
> 
>> and the tone of a lot of the responses is flat out rude.
> 
> Many people read many different things into text messages.  Messages
> on this list may not have "please" and "thank you" all over the place,
> but otherwise, there's nothing impolite about 99% of messages on this
> list.
> 
>> Too many of the responses to people with problems is "compile it in
>> debug mode from version control head or we're not going to listen to
>> you". 
> 
> I'm sure nobody said anything like that last part you made up.  
> 
>> While that is a reasonable response to people posting questions
>> on a developer list, it is really too high a bar for a users list. In
>> fact, I'd wager that better than half of the people who get this
>> response have no idea what you are talking about when you say it.
> 
> It's extensively covered in the HTML docs.  It's laid out step-by-step,
> and quite easy to generate a bugreport by just typing what you are told.
> Never the less, people that don't understand often ask for help, and
> they get it.
> 
> You, however, refuse to put the slightest effort into trying, and insist
> on complaining at every opportunity about being required to do ANYTHING.
>  You are the exception here.  Yet you expect this list to be re-made to
> suit you.
> 
>> I understand that everyone posting answers and helping people out here
>> is a volunteer, but if you are so fed up with answering the questions
>> that you can't put yourself in the end user's shoes for long enough to
>> compose a polite reply, you probably should refrain from hitting
>> "send".
> 
> You say that, and yet you send e-mail after e-mail complaining about
> this list, wasting everyone's time, and being extremely impolite.  You
> even continue top-posting, despite it being very much against list
> rules.
> 
> No one is interesting in hearing how you happen to think people on this
> list should behave.  You've added nothing to any of the discussions
> here.  If you want some polite mailing list where nothing is asked of
> users, I suggest you find some "beginners" forum somewhere.  No doubt
> there are plenty. 
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Daniel Taylor          VP Operations            Vocal Laboratories, Inc.
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