At 10:01 AM +0200 9/3/09, J DeBord wrote:
Telling someone RTFM is just rude and mean.
And not taking the time to research your question before posting is
what, thoughtful and kind?
The phrase RTFM is something I don't like to tell people, and from
what I remember, I have never said that to anyone. However I can
understand where one could read a person's question and deduce that
they did NO research for themselves. Instead, they posted their
question for others to do their research for them because they were
too lazy to do it themselves. No matter how you cut that, that's
lame. So, I certainly don't blame anyone for telling such a person to
RTFM.
I would suggest
that when a question asked here causes you to respond with RTFM, don't
respond at all. Save yourself the time and trouble and save the person
asking the question the grief of being insulted.
Well that's your prerogative to do as you want. But it's a bit
arrogant of you to tell others how to conduct themselves on this
list, don't you think? Who made you list monitor?
And Tedd your condescending
response caused me to lose respect for you.
No offense, but let me make this perfectly clear -- I don't give a
rat's ass what you think about me. From my perspective, you could win
the lottery or die tomorrow, it makes no difference to me either way.
I'm not here to win/lose your respect. I'm here to help those who ask
honest questions. I, like many others, simply donate our time freely
without any benefit whatsoever. If you have problems with that, then
you probably have bigger problems elsewhere.
I'm sure the OP would have been
more than thankful to receive the same response without the RTFM. I'll read
any response to this, but I won't have anything more to say. This list has
been polluted enough lately with nonsense. Incredible.
What's Incredible is how people can post to this list thinking that
they have some right to post whatever they want and expect others to
comment as they want. And, if they don't get what they want, then
they whine about the list being rude and mean. That's Incredible.
My advice, if you have problems with this list, get over it! There's
much more in this world to get upset about rather than what happens
on this list.
tedd
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On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:44 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At 1:01 PM -0400 8/28/09, David Stoltz wrote:
Hey Stuart -
RTFM yourself....I did read it, and obviously misunderstood...
I'm really sorry to bother you. I thought that was what a listserv like
this was for - to ask questions...
I'll try not to ask questions I should know the answer to next time.
Whoa dude!
You just received advice from a brilliant man and you are bitching about
it?!?
Look child, you are being told what you should do by a professional who is
donating his time freely to help you. Just how did you not understand that?
So, just do what he advised and say "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
I've posted some dumb-ass questions before, but only after I took the time
to research the question myself. And when someone took the time to
straighten me out and help, I appreciated it.
Hopefully next time you'll read the manual and take the time to understand
what you read -- it would cut down on post that demonstrate just how
ignorant and thankless you are at this.
Cheers,
tedd
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