stijn wrote: ↑Sun Dec 02, 2018 4:43 pm
Look Paul, there's many way to say things, but you should realize that often when you say things (no matter if they're right or wrong - and usually they are right) it just
sounds rather hostile/impolite/unfriendly. So whether you mean it like that or not: you quickly come over in a non-optimal way, so to speak.
Oh, I kinda got used to it. There's definitely some issues which itch everyone with the situation around MicroPython, then there's this pfalcon guy, which is always around to give impolite suggestion to read the docs, will unfriendly call b/s a b/s, etc., so all that itch - let's blame him! Thanks for joining, be my guest.
A good example is exactly what you just got called out for: I follow your logic that you'd ask someone on a conference what their job is. But then you should just ask that exactly
You see, talks on the forums and conferences are different. For example, at a conference, when a serious talk about project maintenance is to commence, nobody jumps out of nowhere holding a picture bigger than their height, of snake reading a book, jump out and cheerfully chirp "circuitpython! circuitpython! solution to all your problems is circuitpython". And that's literally what I picture as happening in the comment
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4358&start=30#p32325 .
and refrain from using something like "if you want to tell us something interesting" because it quickly sounds like what that person said before is uninteresting.
I totally mean it. It's a grown-up talk, and it's absolutely uninteresting to have rows of comic distractions posted among such talks. First time it happened in
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5556, and nobody talks about thread hijacking. But again, there should be feeling of appropriateness with posts like that. On many forums, overuse of text formatting is prohibited by rules. And on some forums, pictures are turned off because of spam, pr0n, etc. And where they're in, they are moderated in the same way as posts in cap letters with big red font. Trust me, it was a big picture, the size bigger than the textual content there
. Beyond purely graphical distractions, posts a-la "forget about it, here's what we have in circuitpython" nailed on a thread without good cause are also uninteresting.
If they want to talk, let's have a grown-up talk about their marketing and community management plans, with who's who, etc. No reply? Oh, then keep up spammy jump-out advertisement tactics. Just not in this thread.
All in all, this is my last note on Adafruit posts here, their distraction tactics worked, and they've got enough advertisement already
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I know I have to take care of that exact same thing myself
That's indeed the best advice anyone can give to themselves.