My hopefully quick observations, in case they can help put out the coals: Tech lists, particularly busy ones and ones managed by a very small number of people, tend to adopt a harsher demeanor in my experience. My experience includes the FreeBSD community, in which the "do your homework before coming here or expect a lashing" attitude is prevalent enough to draw occasional criticism from Linuxers, or at least this was true when I last looked.
This list is run by, if I'm not mistaken, about five people who are also very busy developing Window-Eyes. This makes for short answers. Short answers can look unduely brusque, here and elsewhere. I admit some messages I've seen here looked discourteous. But some of my answers about Skype on Skype lists and in Skype chats probably look that way to other people, because I too am busy and sometimes provide the minimum info required to direct someone to what they need. I take this list to be intended for serious WE script developers, with more interest in learning and sharing than in protocol and posture. Both can matter, but may function come before form here. :) Disclosure: I work for an assistive technology company in the business of scripting, among other related pursuits. I have no relationship to GW Micro other than as a student of their language and screen reader at this point. On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:02:26AM -0400, RicksPlace wrote: Hi Ron: You are a professional and it should matter to you whether you are a PR person or not. I don't like the snitty tone of this list which has developed over the last year or so. The technicals have been more and more replaced with personal, not so subtle, digs at folks who ask questions. There could be many reasons for it and I fully understand most of them. I will stop posting for awhile to clear the personal cobwebs I get from many of the posts and I would guess you guys at GW won't miss me very much. I will try and only jump in if there is some technical I can help with or someone mdirects a question to me. Rick USA -- Doug Lee, Senior Accessibility Programmer SSB BART Group - Accessibility-on-Demand mailto:[email protected] http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done." --Helen Keller
