That's your perogative, but I can't agree.

Neither of us get paid to post here, and it's a hobby for both of us (though it relates strongly to our respective jobs), so I do appreciate the time you've spent here answering questions.

That said, I don't see anything hostile in princepawn's methods or intents. Posting with a second account is certainly a control operation to see if he's attracted serial downvoters.

Whatever the case, I'm willing to answer an honest question from anyone, be it a person who doesn't want to seem wishy washy by prefacing every question with the phrase "Maybe I just don't understand things, but here is what I tried and I can't seem to get it to work" to a fat Alaskan electrician who says, "What's wrong with this guestbook from scriptarchive?"

When people don't put forth a reasonable amount of effort to answer their own questions, or become abusive, defensive, or offensive, then I won't help.

I think people have the capacity to change and to grow, and I like to give them the opportunity to do so. There's not much written on a web site or on Usenet or in an IRC channel that's worth getting angry about.

(and the more tricky concepts I explain, the more likely people will realize my untapped brilliance and pay me lots of money to write chromatic's guide to doing cool stuff)

In reply to Re: Re: Let us give thanks for princepawn shall whine no more by chromatic
in thread Let us give thanks for princepawn shall whine no more by princepawn

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