In defense of the original criticism, it wasn't done in haste, nor in retaliation or disrespect.

Remember that the original question was posted by someone who was having difficulty at every step, even after several good answers were posted. Later it was responded to by ptkdb with an answer that was, in fact, incorrect on several points, and might have further confused the original poster.

Via the /msg system, ptkdb was alerted to the mistakes so that he could correct them. They were errors that could have been corrected in a minute or two of typing. ptkdb expressed a disinterest in changing anything, and instead, became somewhat irritated at someone noticing problems. Because of the level of help the original poster was requiring at every step, I followed up to ptkdb's post to point out its technically erroneous points, for the benefit of the OP. The OP was even having difficulty opening files and actually running scripts. Pseudo-code wouldn't help him.

It was only after my followup that ptkdb edited his node. But rather than editing the node to fix the problem, he added the line, "Just tossing some pseudocode out there:", and then went on to take the time to post a flaming response to my call-out.

A few hours later, he also went on to post the Code Blocks node, obviously still hot under the collar for what transpired a few hours earlier.


Dave

In reply to Re: Re: Stupid mass-downvoting ... by davido
in thread Stupid mass-downvoting ... by Anonymous Monk

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