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Rockbox "Experts" are jerks

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Llorean:
Just to echo, I've been through several similar experiences, where a message saying something like "I've removed your most recent post. It was put in an inappropriate forum. Please read our guidelines and search the manual before posting" has responded with a variety of insults, and in one case, an extended series of threats from a user who circumvented the ban several times, each time taking the time to PM me and threaten me again. It was clear the user was just mouthing off, but nobody likes to here excessive details about what sort of harm another person claims to want to do to them.

LambdaCalculus:
Say Febs, this individual you're mentioning sounds kind of familiar. I remember somebody that registered on the forums during the week, and he matches your description. He made no attempts to tell us what was wrong, instead only posting "help please" and "i need help", and the best one: "yo how to chnge bakdrp on vid ipod". (Well, that last one may be off... I don't speak Barbarian.)

I usually leave at least one browser window up at work to keep up with the activity on the forums, and I remember suddenly getting a PM. I click it, and it's some kid saying "yo i need help wid dis roxbox". Needless to say, I deleted it.

Do you think this kid simply grew impatient with waiting for a response, and took it upon himself to just start PMing members at random? That kind of behavior on a forum, needless to say, really cheeses me off. I came here because I wanted to help others out and to learn more as I go, not to hear stupid kids come in asking "g1mm3 t3h G4m3b0y R0mZ!!!", as I mentioned earlier.

I think that's why I tend to be a bit disgruntled sometimes. Kids find out about Rockbox, but come in for all of the wrong reasons. Rockbox is an excellent music player, and I consider having games a perk... a bonus, if you will. These kids, though, seem like they're just getting into it for the games, but they come crying when their "pwecious" games don't work, and expect us to jump on command to make them work.

And then you wonder why some F/OSS projects tend to have somewhat jaded volunteers sometimes...

Febs:

--- Quote from: LambdaCalculus379 on July 15, 2007, 10:08:09 AM ---Do you think this kid simply grew impatient with waiting for a response, and took it upon himself to just start PMing members at random? That kind of behavior on a forum, needless to say, really cheeses me off.
--- End quote ---

I think that he started PMing members first, and only posted in the forums after I replied to him.  As far as I am concerned, that's even worse.  

tdtooke:
I'll add my two cents to this, mostly to the original poster.  If you have a problem with a specific mod and really feel that calling them a jerk is called for then you do that in private through a pm.  To me publicly doing such a thing is damaging to a concept I most firmly believe in: a chain of command.  As they are in a position of authority here public remarks of that kind are not productive.  Not to say that an expert would never earn the title "jerk", as humans they all have the capability of earning that name from time to time.  There may be some that disagree with me on pm'ng for this purpose, but to do so publicly is also in my opinion tacky.  

DefineByte:
Nah, I think his post was okay (as a one off). This thread was quite cathartic. ;)

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