This forum is losing touch badly.
It ain't just me, but the past 3 months in this forum have shown unprofessional attitudes, pointless posts, rude and personal situations with damn near half to 3/4 of the posts made here. This forum is starting to suck.
It ain't just me, but the past 3 months in this forum have shown unprofessional attitudes, pointless posts, rude and personal situations with damn near half to 3/4 of the posts made here.
This forum is starting to suck.
Counntless flame wars over OS's, processors, video card companies, hardware, software, the works....everything being flamed all the time, shows NO professional attitudes by ALL of us, including myself.
And why is this? because people are trying propaganda all over this forum, it's almost as if each one of us works for the company or lives by the piece of whatever (hardware, software) that we are sticking up for. It is causing a lot of people to leave the forum, complain, flame, etc.
I have gotten lots of e-mail from people that know me on the forum, saying "Doesn't anyone give useful answers at NTCompatible?". My answer is always the same, it is "We all are losing it".
So, we all are entitled to our opinions, that's great, wonderful news. But we should try doing it in a professional manner, here are some examples of both:
Professional:
"Windows Millennium doesn't seem to run nearly as good as Windows 98 on my machine"
Unprofessional:
"Windows Millennium is lame, it's a gay OS that should not have been made, doesn't even run well here compared to windows 98"
see the difference? We should be pushing the professional approach, don't call something names and put it down, just give your general errors, problems, etc, then things will be done. Nobody calls a help desk and says that Netscape is being gay, so why do it here?
We are ALL losing our professional touch, including myself, I should be using my knowledge more than my smart mouth remarks, and I think a lot of people agree on this.
Take it for what it's worth, i'm just suggesting a way that you, I, and others that join could make this place a whole lot better, and a little less chaoic.
Thank you.
[This message has been edited by jdulmage (edited 09 March 2001).]
This forum is starting to suck.
Counntless flame wars over OS's, processors, video card companies, hardware, software, the works....everything being flamed all the time, shows NO professional attitudes by ALL of us, including myself.
And why is this? because people are trying propaganda all over this forum, it's almost as if each one of us works for the company or lives by the piece of whatever (hardware, software) that we are sticking up for. It is causing a lot of people to leave the forum, complain, flame, etc.
I have gotten lots of e-mail from people that know me on the forum, saying "Doesn't anyone give useful answers at NTCompatible?". My answer is always the same, it is "We all are losing it".
So, we all are entitled to our opinions, that's great, wonderful news. But we should try doing it in a professional manner, here are some examples of both:
Professional:
"Windows Millennium doesn't seem to run nearly as good as Windows 98 on my machine"
Unprofessional:
"Windows Millennium is lame, it's a gay OS that should not have been made, doesn't even run well here compared to windows 98"
see the difference? We should be pushing the professional approach, don't call something names and put it down, just give your general errors, problems, etc, then things will be done. Nobody calls a help desk and says that Netscape is being gay, so why do it here?
We are ALL losing our professional touch, including myself, I should be using my knowledge more than my smart mouth remarks, and I think a lot of people agree on this.
Take it for what it's worth, i'm just suggesting a way that you, I, and others that join could make this place a whole lot better, and a little less chaoic.
Thank you.
[This message has been edited by jdulmage (edited 09 March 2001).]
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Back to the topic at hand, I have really noticed a large decrease in the quality of the posts. Sure the regulars (you know who you are) come through with insightful answers and solutions to problems, while others post some rediculous replys. It ssmes everyone here seems to be getting lazy, myself included. I really agree with jd's professional suggestion. When i get home after a long day of semi-conductor electronics the last thing i wanna hear is how much a certain OS blows, or destroys. Given, this message board has a very wide variety of topics, all of them seem to end up in some rather childish banter, like i said, myself included. I think one of the main problems is that we all know eachother and their style and its getting to everyones ego, myself included.
Yeah, Sandoval does have a nifty explanation for it.
"Dish" means a food item. Not necessarily served ON a dish, the dining implement.
As it refers to revenge, I believe it means that it's not something to be sought "in the heat of passion."
Anyway, back to jdulmage's point: Everything's fluid, including message boards. Eveything's always in a state of flux. "Things fall apart; the center will not hold."
One things for sure: All life is about change. It's inevitable. Quit whining and learn to deal with it.
I mean, look at it like this: I just farted and left stains in my underwear. Now, I can either gripe about my wife's damn chili. I can quit eating her damn chili. Or I can just shut the heck up and change my underwear. Personally (assuming I don't want to have to start fixing my own meals), changing my underwear is the easiest and most effective solution. It sure beats the results I've obtained from griping at my wife.
So, jdulmage, if you don't like what's going on here, either improve your own part of it and learn to live with the rest, or leave.
Or change your underwear.
DC
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"Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999
"Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001
"Dish" means a food item. Not necessarily served ON a dish, the dining implement.
As it refers to revenge, I believe it means that it's not something to be sought "in the heat of passion."
Anyway, back to jdulmage's point: Everything's fluid, including message boards. Eveything's always in a state of flux. "Things fall apart; the center will not hold."
One things for sure: All life is about change. It's inevitable. Quit whining and learn to deal with it.
I mean, look at it like this: I just farted and left stains in my underwear. Now, I can either gripe about my wife's damn chili. I can quit eating her damn chili. Or I can just shut the heck up and change my underwear. Personally (assuming I don't want to have to start fixing my own meals), changing my underwear is the easiest and most effective solution. It sure beats the results I've obtained from griping at my wife.
So, jdulmage, if you don't like what's going on here, either improve your own part of it and learn to live with the rest, or leave.
Or change your underwear.
DC
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"Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999
"Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001
right, but it's not us that complain the most, it's visitors and come here thinking this is suppose to be a good place, and they laugh at us and never come back because all they see is flaming, fighting, wars, etc.
That's not a nice place to post in. I am a regular (obviously) and I could give proper posts, correct ones even, but I just don't, because in the last little while, i've seen no reason too because I'd rather get the a good portion of the flaming done and over with.
That's not a nice place to post in. I am a regular (obviously) and I could give proper posts, correct ones even, but I just don't, because in the last little while, i've seen no reason too because I'd rather get the a good portion of the flaming done and over with.
Face it, jdulmage, we're on to your little schemes...
We know how you love to keep things stirred up, centering you in the limelight. But we also know your mommie never gave you enough tit-time, so that's to be expected. (Just think of the newbies that will shrivel at this drivel just because the the precious dears don't know we're really the slut-puppies we are.)
Sometimes its what a person brings to the show, not what they take away from it...
DC
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"Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999
"Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001
We know how you love to keep things stirred up, centering you in the limelight. But we also know your mommie never gave you enough tit-time, so that's to be expected. (Just think of the newbies that will shrivel at this drivel just because the the precious dears don't know we're really the slut-puppies we are.)
Sometimes its what a person brings to the show, not what they take away from it...
DC
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"Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999
"Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001
i have not check out this post in a while and damn entertaining
it seems jd can't do anything without causing a flame. JD you do realize that a large percentage of the posts in this tread are yours and you were the one who did not want to start another flame.
BTW you should come over to my house for bong hits i will pick you up in my helicopter.
it seems jd can't do anything without causing a flame. JD you do realize that a large percentage of the posts in this tread are yours and you were the one who did not want to start another flame.
BTW you should come over to my house for bong hits i will pick you up in my helicopter.
Damn all i see people do is ***** ***** and ***** some more
So youve finally noticed.
I was only kidding
I don't really have a helicopter
but you are all inveted to my house for bong hits
I don't really have a helicopter
but you are all inveted to my house for bong hits
Yeah well i am gonna have to pospone that invite for a couple weeks anyway, it seems that all of the sudden things are a little dry here in southern Vermont. Perhaps I'll go buy myself a pack of cigs. I wonder what it will be like to not get stoned for 2 weeks. I hope that I make it through ok.
Let me know when things pick back up Vermont for that bong hitting party. Hmmm.. Hash Bash in AA is just around the corner... Cool..
Oh, and JD, seems you can never win here, but I like ya'. Might take stabs at ya' every now and then, just means I know you can accept my weird humor. BTW, I dont think this forum is losing it's touch. I rarely post here, but I use the search feature religiously. So much knowledge is here if you want to look for it. Enough to blow your mind if you wish (after a few hits of "L").
Oh, and JD, seems you can never win here, but I like ya'. Might take stabs at ya' every now and then, just means I know you can accept my weird humor. BTW, I dont think this forum is losing it's touch. I rarely post here, but I use the search feature religiously. So much knowledge is here if you want to look for it. Enough to blow your mind if you wish (after a few hits of "L").
So what does "btw" mean"
