Hi Michael, No offense, but I think the response you got was justified from the developer's perspective. Its obvious from his response that he feels you were e-mailing him too much over the accessibility topic, he felt pressured and hounded, and instead of looking at it as suggestions he saw it as spam. As a developer myself I do know where he is coming from as there are certain members of this community who simply do not know how to ask for something without being rude about it, or by trying to pressure the developer by e-mailing him/her over and over again until they are sick of it.
Seriously. Before you say the developer has a bad attitude why don't you consider your own actions here and see how and why they might have contributed to the developer's attitude? I haven't seen your own post or posts to the developer so I can't give you specifics, but I can tell you some general things that tick developers off. Did you sound pushy, winy, or demanding when you wrote your post? Did you send him one message or did you constantly send him e-mails over and over again until he simply got fed up with reading them? Did you discuss it privately, or did you write him in a public forum for all to see? My point being here is that there are a number of ways you can irritate a developer without intending to just by being pushy, demanding, writing your suggestions over a public forum instead of privately, or just sending several messages on the same subject day after day. If he wants to do something he'll do it, but if you irritate the developer its likely he'll just blow you and your suggestions off as an annoyance. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "michael barnes" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 3:34 AM > Subject: [Audyssey] Silversword is not the game for the blind. > > > Hey, All. > I wrote Mario a email sharing him some suggestions about the game. > And he wrote a bad response to me. > So I will not support his bad atitude about accessibility for blind and > low vision people. > Here is the message he sent me. > > Hi Michael, > > > at first it was nice. Then it was constructive. Now it is spam. > Stop spamming me, will you? > Treat this message as a nice way to ask for: > > > - stop emailing me with accessibility issues that contain unwanted > advertisments > - stop using the game forum for these things > > > You can advertise your accessibility forum wherever you want, but not > on cost of my work. > > > Herzliche Grüße > Kind regards > > -- > Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit > www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
