zachd said:
*shrug*, yeah, but if it encourages random person x later to be helpful
and provide data that lets me close down 1000 crashes, that's a huge win
to me. I've seen other people ask the right questions that have helped me
help people - I like that good triage notions are catching on. =)
Most Linux advocacy documents I've seen point out that the persona you
project online is going to reflect strongly upon what you're trying to
promote. If people from any point of view get ugly/negative, that just
further hurts the reputation of that product group. If people's
experience with an actual Microsoft developer is that he gamely keeps
trying to isolate and solve issues - I don't think that's a bad experience
for people. Am I going to be able to fix everything? No. But if I get
even a 10% fix rate on the issues I look into - isn't that a huge win and
bonus? (Again, that's not Microsoft-centric: I regularly help other
vendors fix their software too. In some cases that's cross-platform, so
users on OS Whatever also benefit.)
I wouldn't work at Microsoft if I didn't think that I had a chance to fix
things and make things better. I certainly can't ban the trolls - even if
it saddens me that this is how they choose to live their life on this
planet - but I can make things better, and I'm going to keep doing that.
=)
They don't seem to get the simple premise of use what works best for YOU.
Instead they think that by trying push their particular antipathy, in some
misguided theory, that they will somehow convince people to covert to their
way of thinking. All they do is make themselves look utterly moronic. I
could personally care less what OS anyone uses. I don't go into the ng's for
other OS's and tell them what crap that one is. What the smacktards that do
it here hope to accomplish is beyond me. Been doing this too long to let
some dingbat dissuade me from using what works because of their whine du
joir.
Like you, I try and help those I can. Smacking them around used to be fun at
first, but as the comedian Ron White says...
"You can't fix stupid"
I've just taken to KF'ing those that are basically a waste of space, and do
not contribute anything useful to the group.
