Well then nuts to all you guys! I don't need to spend any more of my time
trying to help jerks who make blanket statements about people who give
hundreds of hours a month for no renumeration simply because they like
seeing other users have a pleasant experience with Windows. I am absolutely
furious about both the tone and content of this thread and embarrassed for
the lot of you. If this is the direction this ng has gone since my illness
I feel sorry for all of you.
Childish, but oh so TYPICAL response from somebody that obviously
didn't bother to read the full post that said MOST, not all MVPs.
Hundreds of hours a month doing what, cut and paste? Please... people
know all too well that's the typical MVP response. A simple, quick
rehash of the same almost useless comments made probably hundreds of
times before with little if any regard to the details the poster of
the original question may have inquired about.
A typical MVP cookie cutter answer done mostly to impress and stir up
business for themselves... proving more times than not that the MVP
didn't even bother to fully read the question and simply tried to
"match" some canned answer in his requirement to keep his MVP status
by responding to X number of questions per month, the real reason
nearly all MVPs actually post to these so-called "support" groups,
just to keep their MVP badge, that all too often goes to their head
and mostly changes what might have been useful and helpful posters
into self-praising prima donna types overnight.
Suggesting MVPs spend "hundreds of hours a month" repeating cut and
paste replies, a obviously grossly and wildly distorted statement of
the facts is, well crazy.
I'm embarrassed that every day I see BLOWHARDS with MVP behind their
posting nick bellyaching, whining, showboating, pontificating and
making the lamest apologies for Microsoft while making feeble attempts
to prertend they somehow are "in charge" or have superior knowledge.
Quite a show to see.
Laughable really, and it destroys the value of the handful of MVPs
that really do make a effort to help, simply to help. The problem as
it has been for years is way too many MVPs forget to check their
inflated egos at the door, they get out of control, often come off as
some smartass, they frequently try to make fun of or talk down to
Microsoft customers, piss off more experienced posters that know way
more than they do and in general cause most of the unrest seen in this
"support" group by their gross misconduct. Sorry, if that's too much
truth for you to swallow, but the truth it is.
Microsoft several years ago was all set to pull the plug on the MVP
program for exactly these reasons. These newsgroups often end up being
an embarrassement to Microsoft since nobody at Microsoft seems to make
any public effort to keep unruly MVPs in control and punish them from
mouthing off to Microsoft's customer base day after day.
Time Microsoft did get rid of the MVP program. It does more harm then
good and you see more proof of that every day in these so-called
support groups which have been reduced to a marketing tool for those
wishing to make a buck at the expense of less experienced users.