Garyu
January 22nd, 2007, 06:21 PM
OK, I know that this will never be implemented. Still, I had to complain somewhere, so this is where I'm doing it.
When writing on the forum you come across all kinds of people. Many know a lot and are very helpful and kind. I sure do appreciate their help many times. The community is what keeps me addicted to this distro. Other people just don't know anything, and they have a hard time understanding when you try to explain. Still, they make a good effort and when someone with better knowledge and/or communication skills come along and help me helping them a solution is most often found. All of this is good.
What is NOT good is those people who jump in on threads where a discussion is forming to solve a problem and start making statements about how things never work for them. Then they make it obvious that they have never read your attempts at helping them and certainly not tried any of the tips you offer for them to try and make things work. Many times they write in a way that makes it difficult to read and they take a lot of space in threads. Often times they turn it into a discussion about how great windows is and how sucky linux/ubuntu is, so much that you wonder if they are on Microsoft's payroll.
Now, everyone has a right to exist. But wouldn't it be great if we had the possibility to *ignore* these people, as one could do in a chat. Just make the forum software skip everything written by the people on our ignore-lists so we never have to see it. Ah, that would be sooo nice. And yes, I understand that it will never happen. Still. One has to dream sometimes. =P~
When writing on the forum you come across all kinds of people. Many know a lot and are very helpful and kind. I sure do appreciate their help many times. The community is what keeps me addicted to this distro. Other people just don't know anything, and they have a hard time understanding when you try to explain. Still, they make a good effort and when someone with better knowledge and/or communication skills come along and help me helping them a solution is most often found. All of this is good.
What is NOT good is those people who jump in on threads where a discussion is forming to solve a problem and start making statements about how things never work for them. Then they make it obvious that they have never read your attempts at helping them and certainly not tried any of the tips you offer for them to try and make things work. Many times they write in a way that makes it difficult to read and they take a lot of space in threads. Often times they turn it into a discussion about how great windows is and how sucky linux/ubuntu is, so much that you wonder if they are on Microsoft's payroll.
Now, everyone has a right to exist. But wouldn't it be great if we had the possibility to *ignore* these people, as one could do in a chat. Just make the forum software skip everything written by the people on our ignore-lists so we never have to see it. Ah, that would be sooo nice. And yes, I understand that it will never happen. Still. One has to dream sometimes. =P~