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Rockbox "Experts" are jerks
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: xxebbandflowxx on July 12, 2007, 11:55:54 AM ---most of these people are just excited to use the product and are not very tech savvy...
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Rockbox is not a product. It's a project, and it hasn't even been released for any other player than the archos ones. And as it is an open source project there are no warranties, and noone has the right for support. We could do it similar to other projects with about no support -- but I don't think this would be better in any way. Instead, we require users doing their homework and some amount of thinking themselves:
If someone comes around and replaces a firmware he should do some investigation first and get to know differences and common errors, i.e. read the documentation and FAQs. Quite a lot users coming in here, having installed Rockbox just for playing doom. That's not the purpose of Rockbox, and why should someone in this forum help about this if people are not willing to even read the documentation first?
Bagder:
And for the record, being a jerk isn't always bad. It actually sometimes make people go read the manual! ;-)
DefineByte:
Remove the pre-compiled downloads and close the unsupported builds board. Should sift out most of the detritus.
I kid of course. >.> ;)
xxebbandflowxx:
--- Quote from: LambdaCalculus379 on July 12, 2007, 12:30:17 PM ---Then do you want to try and deal with these kids that install Rockbox just because they hear about playing Game Boy games on their iPods? Do you want to hear repeated requests of "gimme t3h gameboy r0mZ!!"? Well, do you?
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spoken like a true tech :D no sir, as atractive as that sounds, i'll leave you to it!... this is a much better response than i had hoped for, at least you guys realize it ;D... i'm seriously cracking up over here... and i have totally changed my opinion... you guys are doing an awesome job, keep up the disgruntled work! :D
YOU GUYS ROCK....err...um... like some... sort of... box?
magnumforce2006:
I do agree with the sentiment that some of the experts come across as somewhat (and in some cases VERY) condescending, but the bottom line is that unless you become a developer or an expert, you really are only using a project that you have no influence or power on.
I don't use rockbox for the forum mods or experts though, I use it because it's good ;D
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