Adam Cameron wrote:
"You would have found yourself in quite a small minority there, would you not? What's the rationale there then?"
Yeah, and I'm still keen to hear what he has to say.
Me too.
been led to believe that there is more than a minority who follow that practice.
Sure. And it's interesting. I must do some reading up on this. It's one
of these things like something that came up a couple of weeks back (maybe
here, maybe CFCDEV, and I can't remember what it was), but I was truly
surprised that there was a way of thinking other than how I thought about
it. I don't mean that arrogantly, more meekly: the alternative to whatever
it was had simply never presented itself to me, nor had it crossed my mind.
I disagreed with the alternative, but it was interesting to find out about
it (not so interesting I remember what it was, though, it seems...:-/
I think we've all been bitten by that particular bug at one time or another.
Which may be true for him, but it's certainly not true for all and he appears to make no allowance for those other people
Sorry mate. I'm a Usenet regular where it's best to run with an implicit
"in my opinion" on what people say. It's just a waste of time typing it in
when you might be saying something that an opinion can be had on something.
That's ok, Just needed to vent my spleen a bit and since I'm pretty much an IM and mailing list person I don't have the Usenet filter on in my brain most of the time.
The combination of arrogance and inconsideration is something that just pushes my buttons.
You're right, sorry. I think it's a result of people here seeming to me like every time something not completely positive is raised about CF they come across like someone's just pissed on their first born. It's just a bloody tool, and there's good things about it and there's bad things about it.
There's certainly plenty of people with a religious fervour about all things MM on the various lists, but pissing on their first born probably won't make them any happier ;)
Sometimes it's a fine balance between getting your point across and getting tempers up I guess.
Having spent eight years doing network support before getting into CF, I know one thing: people are more vociferous about the bad than they are the good. (I used to have one user who every couple of months called me up and said "nono, nothing's wrong. Just thought you'd like to hear someone *not* complaining for a change").
There's a few things I really like about CF, but what's the point of raising *those* on a forum:
"hey guys, just wanted to say <cfloop> is treating me really well today".
I think not.
For one thing we don't need to discuss the good stuff: it's obviously (IMO!) already working the way we want it. But when we discuss the stuff that irks us, there's a chance we can have it explained to us, or voice a real concern to the manufacturers.
A sh*t can come across sounding heated; it's just the nature of text-based communications.
Yep, text is a poor medium of communication in a lot of ways.
That's not to say Adam's either of those, it's just coming across that way to me.
Sometimes I mean to be; other times not. Not this time, though.
It's nice to have someone come back with something other than an attack when you've called them arrogant and inconsiderate.
Thanks Adam.
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