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psyjax:
Don't go Calum!!!!  :D

No one want's you to leve. Your the life of the forum at times, and your flames are fantastic! Best around.

Calum:
if they're cleverly phrased, then those responses (format c: et cetera) are totally valid. I have helped people find software and patches for their so called "OS" but only if they are civil, and so has voidmain too. Also there's only so much help you can give, zombie5324875462378 posted an in depth fix for something recently, but i guarantee you that if i tried to make all those modifications on my system, i'd be reinstalling within a week. Useless.

If they're cunts (and a lot of thenm are) then they deserve all they get. That said, there's nothing to stop you offering help, IanC, i can tell you have a lot of knowledge to impart. myself, i am sorry to say i do have a big mouth and more opinion than fact. If i see somebody being a cunt i willnot hesitate to try and piss them off though. they deserve it, and in the case of "whiteboy" i think it was a long time coming.

[ May 10, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

hoojchoons:
We're saying the same thing Calum. I agree with you completely. As a matter of fact I also used to visit the forums, eventhough not registered as a member just to look at the posts, since November last year. To my great surprise, the quality of people registering is getting worse and worse. You get people like Goosenbury, Whiteboy, fuckin' cunts that copy other members names (I can still remember you and VoidMain getting pissed off about that, threatening to leave the forums)! (I'm trying to be as clear as possible when expressing my thoughts, since English is not my native language, although I have studied in the U.K for two years. So, please excuse my English if I ever make a slip-up    )

iancom:
Sorry Calum, in particular I didn't want to offend you with that post.

It is very true (noteably in Whiteboy's case) that people have genuinely tried to help and that assistance has been met with a tirade of abuse from the original requestant. I don't mean to suggest that we should put up with that at all.

However, there has been a tendency recently toward the view that Windows users don't belong in this forum, and it's that which I object to. The more Windows users the better - how else will they learn that there is something better out there?

voidmain:
I believe we should help non-Windows users only. If Windows users need help, Microsoft has a phone number they can call. All they need is a credit card $$$.  I help Windows users day in and day out, then when I get home, friends and relatives call every night with their Windows problems. Every person I help I usually give them a dose of Microsoft sucks and that there is a better way. They look at me cross-eyed like I'm speaking in tongues. Most are all take and no give. Never fails, I sit down to eat dinner and the phone rings. I usually have to enjoy my meal while talking Joe Shmoe through cleaning the latest Klez.Win32.Sucks virus off their machine. Or "I installed this cool program, now my computer won't boot". Worse than telemarketers! At least I can hang up on the telemarketers. I'm to the point where I tell people I'm no longer in the computer business and have gone back to mechanics. It's so unbelievably draining.

There are 10 million Windows forums out there. Sure most of us know the precise answer to the M$ questions that are asked. You can answer them if you want but I personally like this site because it is an oasis in the toxic waste pool of an M$ world. I would certainly hate to see it turn into an M$ support line. It's people like us who are keeping M$ in business and I don't particularly want to do that anymore.

[ May 11, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

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