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Llorean:
Which would you prefer:
1) Help where we expect people to actually abide by the agreement they gave us when they signed up for the forum.
2) No help at all.
I'm sorry if we expect people to actually be telling us the truth, but we do, and that's the way it is. It *is* a volunteer operation and frankly I don't see you stepping up and volunteering to provide support in our stead. Instead you're telling us how to do it from the sidelines.
Basically put up or shut up. If you think it can be done better you can step in and start providing answers. Anyone can. As mentioned previously it's a volunteer op. And as has been mentioned above, most of the people who get told off simply get told to look in the manual. You mentioned we should tell them where to find the information, but seem to find we're not specific enough. Since the answers ARE in the manual, you could then look them up and provide a more specific answer.
How's that sound? You get to right the wrongs you seem so intent to point out?
cool_walking_:
--- Quote from: matt0001 on August 16, 2008, 10:33:28 PM ---I'll probably go ahead and install Rockbox anyway, but I won't be recommending it to anyone else solely because of the way treat your forum members.
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That seems pretty stupid to me. You're not getting back at anyone by keeping Rockbox to yourself. Instead, you're depriving your friend of an awesome piece of software because you are easily offended.
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: matt0001 on August 16, 2008, 10:33:28 PM ---Instead of "2. - Here you imply you have an iPod. The question though is something you could have learned had you read the manual, or even done a basic search of the forums. Both are activities you agreed to do before asking questions when you signed up for the forums," why not just say "Our manual has the answers to most of you questions. You can find it here."
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So you're basically telling we should provide less help by putting less specific answers? This sounds absolutely contraproductive to me, and I'm absolutely sure (if we do) people will complain us being too unspecific. :o
astro2:
--- Quote from: GodEater on August 15, 2008, 11:10:53 AM ---Whether it's "worth it" or not is an entirely subjective question, and of course you're asking very biased people. We wouldn't be here if we didn't think so. However, no-one's out to make you use it - if you don't like - you don't have to. The manual includes full instructions on how to uninstall it again.
In fact, the answer to most of your questions is to be found in the manual.
Yes there are bugs - if people report them to us, we even try to fix them.
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true i can just look in the manual but this topic is open so why not just keep asking, upon that why keep directing people to the manual, if so why have a forum?
yes its true answers given would be biased, but if its good i'm sure you could've given some positive points you yourself liked
finally I find it a little pointless to point out useless stuff and type irrelevant words on the forum that some people do, when that time used to make a point or complain could've been used to help, I mean its just as bad as creating a topic, have people view it, and have "0" peeps answer the questions
btw rockbox must be a super new project as I played with the background and the screen screwed up.
LinusN:
--- Quote from: astro2 on August 20, 2008, 03:25:04 AM ---btw rockbox must be a super new project as I played with the background and the screen screwed up.
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In some respects it is. The themes and the graphic WPS customization features are fairly recent, and are being worked on. Also, Rockbox is not very fault tolerant in all cases.
This is why we need users to file bug reports for such problems, so we can fix them.
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