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Re: Re: Re: Urgent help required
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Oct 18, 2002 at 12:10 UTC
    ronan76 I think you should reasess your attitude. In the CB people were muttering nasty things about your SOPW. I at least had a look and then told you why you didnt get the results you wanted. I also told you how to get the most out of this site. I also attempted to help you when you did have a specific problem (as nothingmuch pointed out.)

    So frankly if you did ignore my words then im sure you wont get much help here.

    Also, from my experience what nothingmuch so generously did for you is unusual. Perhaps he had the time. Perhaps he hasnt seen as many posts like yours as I (and the people in the CB at the time) have. Either way his generosity here and your generosity on other sites has nothing to do with the average culture and practice of this site.

    If I was really trying to be unhelpful I would have just ignored your post like the rest of the people in the CB did.

    I dont feel bad inquiring if anyone has a similar script written to the one i'm looking for

    Well, to me that wasnt what your question asked. Whatever.

    BTW, notice your XP and rep of that node has dropped... Could it be because people think you have a bad approach?

    --- demerphq
    my friends call me, usually because I'm late....

Re: Re: Re: Urgent help required
by nothingmuch (Priest) on Oct 18, 2002 at 11:28 UTC
    I tend to agree with demerphq.
    Although you may argue that demerphq may have been impolite or snappy, writing "Urgent help required" is too general, and blocks off many users. Additionally, the pseudocode is very easy to implement in perl, and and you could have done it yourself with the perl documentation, which if you have perl, you have them too.
    I think an apology is a better response than an impolite retort.

    Patience is a virtue, show it even if you aren't offered any.
    Make the world a better place. Kay?

    UPDATE: btw, demerphq DID answer your previous post... I think an apology is even more appropriate than what i thought before... Think about it.

    -nuffin
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