jaffacake;300374 Wrote: > In honesty, I've experienced much the opposite in general. I've found > some very helpful forum members who have provided valuable information > both on the forums and behind the seens on email/PM. > > These are the people who make a community. They put their differences > aside and go out of their way to explain why they love Squeezebox and > what it offers them. >
Indeed, they are an amazing bunch. Maybe it's that they are into open source, and, therefore, more inclined toward idealism. I'm not really in their camp, when it comes to your posts... perhaps the fact I work with words to communicate ideas sensitizes me to the subtle perjorative jabs you take at our products in virtually EVERY message you post. For example: > They're also explained where I'm going wrong at times like, as a simple > example, I didn't know I could delete a track from the queue using the > controller which I would have highlighted as a weakpoint otherwise. If you removed "...which I would have highlighted as a weakpoint otherwise." the sentence would have been just as effective in communicating your point but wouldn't have contained what I believe is your *real* message. But maybe I'm just jaded from years of experience on Usenet (prior to the Great Renaming), newgroups, BBSes, forums, etc. Or this example: > They've helped me get a product, which I thought was buggy and unusable > on day 1, to a system that now plays music fairly reliably. You've got > a good community here, it's just a shame that a small handful of > individuals feel the need to spoil it for everybody. You could have said: "They've helped me work through a few problems and now I have a system that play music fairly reliably." Or even "They've helped me get up and running despite a few problems." See the difference? Of course you do. In my opinion the extra words are very deliberate, which means you know exactly what I'm saying. A favorite colloquialism here in the United States is: "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig." In this case, it means dressing up your posts with an outwardly helpful appearance and an underlying tone of subtle disappointment, still delivers the message you really want to convey. -=> Jim -- JimC "well, she wasn't all of that, but she sure was some of that." -- BKlaas' college buddy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JimC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47333 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
