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From: 1usa@llenroc.ude.invalid on 14 Feb 2006 15:12
DJ Stunks wrote:
> > <this context intentionally left blank>
>
> *my* broken google reply button is still broken...
>
> -jp

A-ha! I did not realize that they had moved the stupid Reply link to
the bottom of the page with the rating stuff. I thought now one could
only reply via "more options".

Sorry about the false jubilation ... The stupid rating system is really
stupid though ;-)

Sinan

From: Bart Lateur on 15 Feb 2006 03:23
Tad McClellan wrote:

>> My post was inaccurate.
>
>
>So you wasted the time of hundreds of people.

Oh, gee, I don't know. I often notice that newbies ignore telltale
signals like case and exact spelling when debugging. To these people,

use foo;

and

use Foo;

mean the same thing... Which to people with sufficient experience in
perl, they clearly aren't.

Posts like these can teach those people to not ignore such signs.

--
Bart.
From: Dr.Ruud on 15 Feb 2006 10:06
Bart Lateur schreef:
> Tad McClellan wrote:
>> $someone:

>>> My post was inaccurate.
>>
>> So you wasted the time of hundreds of people.
>
> Oh, gee, I don't know. I often notice that newbies ignore telltale
> signals like case and exact spelling when debugging. To these people,
>
> use foo;
>
> and
>
> use Foo;
>
> mean the same thing... Which to people with sufficient experience in
> perl, they clearly aren't.

s/perl/Perl/

> Posts like these can teach those people to not ignore such signs.

--
Affijn, Ruud

"Gewoon is een tijger."
From: Bart the bear on 15 Feb 2006 15:39

A. Sinan Unur wrote:
> "Bart the bear" <bartthebear(a)gmail.com> wrote in
> news:1139935881.277610.45480(a)f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
>
> [ Please quote an appropriate amount of context when you post a reply ]
>
> > Tad, please do not misunderestimate me. I humbly apologize to all the
> > opressed
> > masses of the world that I helped further opress with my lack of
> > precision. You are
> > hereby granted the right to draw a cartoon of my person. I promise not
> > to torch down anything if you decide to do so.
>
> Snide remarks like this are not appreciated here. Tad has done you a
> service by showing you how to ensure continued assistance here.

I accepted and corrected my mistake. In addition to that, I find Tad's
comment
snide and over the line. Therefore, I replied with a dose of humor,
characteristic
for us, godless liberals from NYC. Hopefully, humor is still not
politically incorrect?
Not even in TX?
Thank you very much for your answer, I really appreciate this. The
question was
written in a hurry and was not precise enough. Talking about "wasting
time of
hundreds of people" is a wee bit exaggerated and over the top, to put
it mildly.
You gave me the answer I was looking for and you refrained from sermons
because
of my lack of precision. Thanks again, for both.

From: A. Sinan Unur on 15 Feb 2006 17:04
"Bart the bear" <bartthebear(a)gmail.com> wrote in
news:1140035993.035423.55000(a)g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

>
> A. Sinan Unur wrote:
>> "Bart the bear" <bartthebear(a)gmail.com> wrote in
>> news:1139935881.277610.45480(a)f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
>>
>> [ Please quote an appropriate amount of context when you post a
>> reply ]
>>
>> > Tad, please do not misunderestimate me. I humbly apologize to all
>> > the opressed masses of the world that I helped further opress with
>> > my lack of precision. You are hereby granted the right to draw a
>> > cartoon of my person. I promise not to torch down anything if you
>> > decide to do so.
>>
>> Snide remarks like this are not appreciated here. Tad has done you a
>> service by showing you how to ensure continued assistance here.
>
> I accepted and corrected my mistake. In addition to that, I find Tad's
> comment snide and over the line. Therefore, I replied with a dose of
> humor, characteristic for us, godless liberals from NYC.

I don't understand what being a godless liberal form NYC has anything to
do with anything. Are you imputing political ideology based on where Tad
is from? Are you implying that somehow has determines how he posts? In
the same vein, given that I am Muslim, are you implying that I am
intolerant because some dimwits are burning down embassies?

I am not sure if you have noticed but this is a technical discussion
group.

> Hopefully, humor is still not politically incorrect?

Yours is not humor. Besides, I thought political correctness was
invented by liberals.

> Not even in TX?

Dunno ...

> Thank you very much for your answer, I really appreciate this.

You are welcome, and I appreciate that you appreciate the help.

> The question was written in a hurry and was not precise enough.
> Talking about "wasting time of hundreds of people" is a wee bit
> exaggerated and over the top, to put it mildly.

It is not. The alternative to posting an imprecise question in a hurry
was for you to spend, oh, say, two more minutes of your time to post a
precise question.

Your post was read by hundreds of people. Most of them, such as myself,
spent more than a couple of minutes of their time reading your question,
and trying to figure out what it means. So, by not spending the extra
two minutes, you caused others to spend about 200 minutes of their time
trying to figure out what you were talking about. That is the very
definition of wasting others' time.

I got lucky, and was able to correctly guess the precise way in which
you were being imprecise.

> You gave me the answer I was looking for and you refrained from
> sermons because of my lack of precision. Thanks again, for both.

Again, you are welcome for both, but I have a feeling you are going to
be disappointed after having read this post.

Tad knew you had received an answer, but warned you that continued posts
in the same vein would not be deserving of our attention. That was an
appropriate warning.

There are more people who need help than people who are willing and able
to give help. So, given the choice, we will naturally gravitate more
towards posts that are precise, and posters, whom we feel, do not waste
our time.

Sinan
--
A. Sinan Unur <1usa(a)llenroc.ude.invalid>
(reverse each component and remove .invalid for email address)

comp.lang.perl.misc guidelines on the WWW:
http://mail.augustmail.com/~tadmc/clpmisc/clpmisc_guidelines.html

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