The official thread for Sho-related complaints
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:27 am
It seems a lot of latent frustration has recently been bubbling up to the surface and, in the process, driving several perfectly good threads off topic. This is a bad thing. Vent your steam here, and I promise to be civilized. (Heck, Pie had a dedicated venting thread, too.)
Common complaints:
Sho hates all suggestions.
I do occasionally come out on the side of supporting a suggestion. It's true that I'm very much on the cautious side of making changes to Cantr, but if a change is not too hard to make and will have an overall positive effect on Cantr, I do not oppose it. If I overemphasize negative effects and overlook positive effects of ideas, my apologies. But many suggestions are made without a full consideration of unintended consequences.
If Sho can't come up with a valid reason to shoot down a suggestion, he calls it unimplementable.
When I say a suggestion would be difficult to implement, I really do mean that. To be sure, I (as I often point out when I shoot down a suggestion in this way) am not a ProgD member and don't know everything they can and can't do, but from what's been said on the forums and what I've noticed while playing Cantr I have a reasonably clear, though very fragmented and incomplete, picture of how Cantr works under the hood. If a suggestion conflicts with something I know about Cantr, I can confidently say that it will not be easy to implement. ProgD's assessments of codability are more often than not in accordance with mine.
Sho's writing style is cold and unsympathetic.
It's how I write, and how I talk. Blame my childhood. If I want people to take seriously what I say, I write in a serious manner.
Sho hates [insert name here].
I attack posts, not people. If a post is offtopic, incoherent or just plain wrong, I respond to it, making clear why I don't like it. If you make many such posts, you will get attacked a lot by me. It doesn't mean I'm out to get you. No, that doesn't mean I have warm fuzzy feelings towards everyone, but I don't do things just because I don't like someone.
Sho must be going through his menstrual cycle 24/7. (Okay, so it's only been said once. But it's funny.)
I'm male.
Sho's avatar is scary.
Thank you. It's actually the only digitized photo of myself that was taken recently enough (3 years ago) to look anything like me.
Common complaints:
Sho hates all suggestions.
I do occasionally come out on the side of supporting a suggestion. It's true that I'm very much on the cautious side of making changes to Cantr, but if a change is not too hard to make and will have an overall positive effect on Cantr, I do not oppose it. If I overemphasize negative effects and overlook positive effects of ideas, my apologies. But many suggestions are made without a full consideration of unintended consequences.
If Sho can't come up with a valid reason to shoot down a suggestion, he calls it unimplementable.
When I say a suggestion would be difficult to implement, I really do mean that. To be sure, I (as I often point out when I shoot down a suggestion in this way) am not a ProgD member and don't know everything they can and can't do, but from what's been said on the forums and what I've noticed while playing Cantr I have a reasonably clear, though very fragmented and incomplete, picture of how Cantr works under the hood. If a suggestion conflicts with something I know about Cantr, I can confidently say that it will not be easy to implement. ProgD's assessments of codability are more often than not in accordance with mine.
Sho's writing style is cold and unsympathetic.
It's how I write, and how I talk. Blame my childhood. If I want people to take seriously what I say, I write in a serious manner.
Sho hates [insert name here].
I attack posts, not people. If a post is offtopic, incoherent or just plain wrong, I respond to it, making clear why I don't like it. If you make many such posts, you will get attacked a lot by me. It doesn't mean I'm out to get you. No, that doesn't mean I have warm fuzzy feelings towards everyone, but I don't do things just because I don't like someone.
Sho must be going through his menstrual cycle 24/7. (Okay, so it's only been said once. But it's funny.)
I'm male.
Sho's avatar is scary.
Thank you. It's actually the only digitized photo of myself that was taken recently enough (3 years ago) to look anything like me.