The official thread for Sho-related complaints

[Sho]

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.

[deadboy]

Eh he he, I'm sorry but this thread makes me laugh

[formerly known as hf]

I'm male.

This is the only thing I have an issue with. Damned men...

[Nixit]

Heehee, Sho is hilarious. I love his writing style.

[Phalynx]

Sho works too hard on the Wiki but has lost all joy in his life because he doesn't play Cantr any more....



(Come over to the Light side, Sho)

[Stan]

No complaint about Sho...thought I must admit you're picture makes you look like one of the Mustard Gas bombers from the mid '90's. You don't know anything about Mustard Gas do you Sho?

[deadboy]

No complaint about Sho...thought I must admit you're picture makes you look like one of the Mustard Gas bombers from the mid '90's. You don't know anything about Mustard Gas do you Sho?

[Sunni Daez]

I have never complained about Sho... and all the work he has put into the Wiki.. is now being lost amongst all the spam there, and has apparently become more of a problem than it is worth. Thanks Sho... Some of us do apprciate it.. as for his speaking/ writing style... Much better than a page of sugar coated crap that has nothing to do with the topic...

(Edited = dang type-o's)

[nitefyre]

While we're on the topic of ranting, I find it hypocritical that the very same people who make the useless "sugar-coated posts" being complained about are the very same people who feel obliged to superficially agree with Sho.

[funetik]

*grins*

I feel partly responsible. You seemed genuinely concerned in that other thread and I was trying to help, honest!

No complaint about Sho...thought I must admit you're picture makes you look like one of the Mustard Gas bombers from the mid '90's. You don't know anything about Mustard Gas do you Sho?

lol, ouch. I wouldn't quite go that far but, like I said in the other thread, it looks a little bit menacing

[Nalaris]

I once sarcastically said that anything Sho can't find problems with he calls hard to implement, but only to try and aquaint a new player with a cold fact of Cantreality: Sho hates any suggestion that is less than perfect. Don't argue, it's true, and not necesarrily a bad thing. After all, if Sho can't find anything to complain about in a suggestion we know it's good.