BAM opened this issue on Mar 07, 2005 ยท 71 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Tue, 08 March 2005 at 11:04 AM
Finally, all CL seems to do here is come by for hit and runs. Just sad.
The issue is well-covered by the following statement:
*As for CL not being in these forums as much as they were 3-4 years ago? That is the direct fault of the handful of members here who went out of their way to shoot them on site... and who still lie in wait to target any employee of CL. We all lose because of these gunslingers.
If a technical person, someone who can actually answer the questions about the features, is driven out to cheers of applause and the self-congratulatory smirks of the jackals, why should anybody else hang around? No one is paying them to be in the forums, and I'm not sure that any sum of money is worth the abuse.*
On many issues, Carolly and I utterly disagree. But this isn't one of them.
She's hit the nail squarely on the head here.
Only I wouldn't dignify these nay-sayers by labeling them as "gunslingers"........I'd rather refer to them by a more apt term: whiny little cry-babies.
Every time that Curious Labs peeks into this forum, they find themselves immediately jumped on by shrill......people.........that seem to have nothing better to do than to spend their lives crying into their milk.
If I were CL, then I wouldn't particularly want to hang around these parts. I don't blame them for being "hit or miss" around here.
If my audience consisted of a bunch of kindergarteners yelling "MINE! MINE!!!! ME!!!!! ME!!!!!" -- and then screaming and throwing a tantrum when they didn't get their way -- then I wouldn't see much purpose in attempting to appease such a crowd, either. It's an exercise in futility. So why bother? Just issue an official statement or two, and then go to other places -- places where one can enjoy the company of their fellow adults engaged in adult conversations.
One often hears the analogy about the prevailing culture in the forums being "like herding cats".
No, it's not like herding cats.......that's too self-congratulatory of an analogy.....at least cats maintain a certain level of inward dignity.
A better analogy is that it's like tending a nursery school filled with whiny little brats who can't wipe their own......noses.....without crying hysterically about it.