[wp-forums] State of play

[TechGnome]

I'm getting the emails too. I tend to be silent unless I have something 
to add to the issue at hand or I disagree with something. Sorry. Won't 
happen again.
I agree, a simple "thanks, that worked" goes a long way. But as I'm 
finding out with my 3-yr-old, you can't force people to be nice.

When it comes to no-WP code, I think a harder line needs to be taken, as 
well as some liberties. If it's a 5 second fix, something that's been 
seen before, then I see no reason.......

Strike that. I do see a reason to not support it in any way shape or 
form. "Give a mouse a cookie and he's going to want milk." I think the 
time has come that we start becoming hard-assed about helping people and 
sending them to where they really belong. If some one is using something 
that the author no longer supports, maybe there's a reason. Should we be 
expected to then support it? Some of us have a hard enough time 
supporting standard WP code.

One thing we have to make sure of, is that if we do start taking a hard 
line attitude and start taking flak from it, be sure to grow some thick 
skin and do not let it become personal. We've all seen the threads out 
there. The ones that sit there, smoldering, hoping some one will pick it 
up and and fan the flames.

More forums isn't the answer. This is the WP Support Forums. Not the Wp 
Support Forums "and anything else that is php or even remotely connected 
to WP, even if it's my friend that has WP and not me Forums."

I see no problem with telling people to "Search First". "Search again". 
"Look through the Codex" "Did you contact the author?" "Search one more 
time" "Gimmie your WP setup stats (WP version, PHP ver, mySQL ver, host)"

I don't think anyone noticed but I haven't been haging out in the forums 
much lately. I got tired of seeing posts for the same thing, all on the 
Forums front page, byt THREE DIFFERENT people. Even the subject lines 
had the same keywords in it. I've also gotten tired of all the 
"Integrate WP in to my XYZ (insert some application here.)" Which are 
then replied to by the OP with "bump" to which Podz then replies telling 
them that bumping doesn't help. Which is then followed by the demand for 
help and eventualy the "you suck" post. I've been tempted to post 
replies with the following sediment: "Not with that attitude. Look, 
chill. Give it a day, then come back and when you are no longer high or 
drunk, try to as susincly as possible describe your problem. Maybe if 
you have a better attitude, some one might be willing to help. But it 
isn't going to be me and it isn't going to be today." But instead I bit 
my toungue and leave.

-tg 

ifelse wrote:

> > "It would seem that the mailing lists are broken for many others 
> given the lack of responses. Could someone look into that ?"
> To clarify, I'm receiving the mails but had little to add hence my 
> lack of response. I agree with your sentiments and believe that the 
> very reasons that you have highlighted have had a definite detrimental 
> effect.
>
> One other one that I would add to the list is
> - people failing to say thank you
>
> A short while ago, I spent some time to look into, investigate and 
> resolve a CSS problem that someone was having (I know, probably OT). I 
> go back a short while after to see that they'd decided to implement 
> the fix but not reply with a simple "problem fixed. thanks".
>
> I realise that we're not helping out for thanks or rewards but a 
> little bit of courtesy makes a hell of a difference...
>
> Oh and my forum handle is ifelse.
>
>
> On 11/7/05, *Podz* <podz at tamba2.org.uk <mailto:podz at tamba2.org.uk> > 
> wrote:
>
>     Vicki Frei wrote:
>     > On 11/6/2005 5:11:54 PM, Les Bessant (les at lcb.me.uk
>     <mailto:les at lcb.me.uk>) wrote:
>
>     Thank you both for your replies.
>     It would seem that the mailing lists are broken for many others given
>     the lack of responses. Could someone look into that ?
>
>     P.
>
>
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