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Mark_Wallace wrote: Unfortunately, you don't get to decide. What I'm thinking, how I'm thinking, or what my intentions are are my business, not yours. You have no right to -- and are not qualified to -- make decisions on that.
Based on that no post can be declared abusive.
There is no social interaction with other humans where you know what the person really meant. All you can do is evaluate it based upon your own experience and what you observed. And in this forum that based almost exclusively on what people post.
A real argument might be made as to whether this is "abuse". I have seen posts at other sites which consisted of nothing but curse words. I would probably mark that as abusive. I have never seen one of those here as such I have never used the abuse button that I recall.
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Seems to me that the meanness level has gone up on many developer forums, including here (Stackoverflow and even the Qt forums being two others in particular.) Your experience seems typical--why not just answer the damn question? Or not.
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Some people in the QQ section aren't really nice and sometimes I wonder why they try to answer or comment at all.
Don't take it personal, I think most of us had a similar problem.
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Your question seemed okay to me and while I can't answer it I found it concise enough to understand. Some folk stroll around like bears with sore heads. Perhaps he was such a bear that day.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I agree that it was a unnecessary debate. But why even start it, you could have either answered the questions or just ignored them.
SA posts a lot in QA section, and most of the questions / members are bit off. So he might be already annoyed by something/someone.
And in general people (even on SO) who answers questions gets annoyed when the person asking question tries to defend themselves or argue about the answer.
So just take it easy, I am sure someone who understand will answer your question soon.
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Don't listen to Sergey - He tends to be a little sunshine when he doesn't manages to get the point of the question. In the end he ends up pissing of the OP in most of the cases.
At least he was able to get some points for commenting on your question.
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Your question makes perfect sense to me, and I would also like to know the answer!
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This[^] could solve that. If you don't get up, it costs you more than time...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Nah I'd rather turn the ringer on my deaf alarm clock back on and wake the neighbours. It has an 80+db volume
Plus I don't have enough cash to even think about donating
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Simon_Whale wrote: Plus I don't have enough cash to even think about donating
I think that's kind of the idea - it encourages you to get out of bed!
Mind you, a cat works as well as an alarm most of the time... They aren't good at Summer Time changes though.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Mind you, a cat works as well as an alarm most of the time...
Yup, we have three alarm clocks matching that description. We have one that has this ability to jump on the bed and once in a while it scores a bullseye when it lands on my knackers. Believe me, you can't sleep after that.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Oh I believe you, trust me.
We had one who worked out that if I was awake, the Cat Food Provider would also rise from her pit and feed him. So every morning without fail 8.5Kg of cat would jump on the bead and stand on my bladder...
Then there was Bill. When he wanted me awake, he headbutted my nose. Not in a "push, push, rub" sort of way - more a "Gorbals Greetin'" full-on fight starter!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I'd shoot that thing the first time it went off.
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OriginalGriff wrote: If you don't get up, it costs you more than time... Good. Emotional blackmail to help people push their limits
..hits snooze again
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I used to have a problem getting up but then I got a black lab puppy.
Now if I'm not up by six am I have a mess to clean up.
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Cool. That and other[^] alarm clocks seem to also be effective.
Signature construction in progress. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Damn you have the perfect signature - CBadger
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Sadly, if you scroll all the way to the bottom, you will find it's an April Fool's joke...
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With that thing near my bed, I wouldn't even think of sleeping in the first place.
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Seems the actor who played Baldrick in Blackadder is now Sir Tony Robinson[^]
At this rate, Nagy or Dalek Dave should be getting one soon.
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TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Dalek Dave should be getting one soon
A Baldrick? Yeah, I can see that.
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Yeah, it would be handy to keep the pants sailing where they need to be, but also a knighthood. Service to the public and all. Keeping us away from demon booze.
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TTFN - Kent
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Well, you know what they say... "once a king always a king, but once a knight is enough".
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Well if you eat dung long enough
And he had a "cunning" plan
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