If you've got nothing useful to add why bother ?
Like this? Like your entire post? Please, PM me and explain how this contributes to the current discussion, or to the forum in general. My "sniping", much like this very response you're currently reading, contains my opinion followed by a fairly well-reasoned explanation of why/how I arrived at it and why I feel it's applicable. I can well see how you might find those opinion's negative, but I highly doubt that you can muster an argument for their being non-constructive.
Furthermore, for anything I am paying for I feel should be a bit more in depth in explanation...
God am I really paying for the "Read The F'n Manual" comments?
I'm not sure how or why you feel that you're paying for or entitled to any explanation whatsoever. Amadeus makes it quite clear throughout the subscription process and the documentation exactly what your subscription fee (none of which is going to myself or the other contributers to these forums) guarantees you, and your questions don't fall under any of it.
What IS being paid for is the server to host these forums, the bandwidth and storage space they use. Also all readers of and contributors to these forums pay the price of time and energy to go through these posts and attempt to help others...a price that goes up when people do things like use uninformative titles like "Help! It doesn't work!", or fill up a thread with redundant information.
Yes, I'm a big bad bully to demand that people think before they post, that they do some research for themselves, follow standard (I dare say common-sense) posting guidelines that would be applicable on any other forum, and so on. That said, I might as well heap on the abuse by suggesting that you both do some research on the distinction between FORM and CONTENT, and that you read with the objective of discerning the thoughts the author is attempting to express rather than scanning until you find a buzzword or phrase you don't like and narrowing your attention to that. I freely admit that I myself am guilty of the same error, but it's good advice nevertheless and a methodology that I attempt to follow.
I mean I appreciate you giving your advice on the use but it seems to be a trend to down someone needing specifics..
Hardly. If you scan other posts I've made, you won't have to look far to find one where I've literally spent hours working answer to a question; researching documentation, writing example code, designing "toy scripts" to test certain behaviors for myself so that I can be fairly sure I'm not providing false information. If this is true for me, I'm sure it's true for many of the other "regulars" that post on these forums. However, what none of us likes is providing the same information (specific or otherwise) that is already available in the scripts themselves or in the already-extant feedback posts for those scripts. Anybody that finds a suggestion that they read this documentation, or become more familiar with the process they're asking for help with being "hindered" in some way, I'm sad to say, just doesn't "get it" and isn't likely to find the type or quality of help they're looking for around here.
Good luck. I could have just closed or deleted this thread, but here instead I've spent nearly an hour of my life trying to write a thoughtful reply. I sincerely hope somebody who's less of a "bully" can help you with your issues.
edit: F*ck you xeonx, you old softy
