For my part, I'm going only to say this. I suspect that what we're dealing with here is a fundamental misunderstanding. Seems to me to be the case that, if we had this explanation earlier, (perhaps at the point of first criticism), it would never have gone to this level. I myself have found the site to be of use especially in my beginning Mac days. I think there's sometimes a gap between what developers put in and what people get out. This gap could, I think, be eliminated by better explanations on both parts as to when problems arise. Developers feel that the would be recipients of a piece of information or site is not being appreciated by the would be recipients. The recipients feel that not enough is being done. I suspect that it might be useful if we all kind of stepped back from the edge a bit and asked ourselves how we can better communicate with one another about things going on. I'm not suggesting we all become experts at this; but, I think if we let this gap go on to long, it would not be healthy for either side.
Just my two cents. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!! Skype Name: barefootedray On Feb 16, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote: > On Feb 16, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Michael Thurman wrote: > >> just post t he text if you want to post stuff here these stes are >> rediculous anyway if you can't copy and paste the text into the E mail >> why bother these sites take forever and are almost universally porly written > > 1. These messages are auto generated by the site. It provides an excerpt, the > length of which I cannot control. It isn't a human copying and pasting the > message into an email. > > 2. As the main author of the written content for the site, I'm very sorry to > hear you feel our content is so poorly written. I take a great deal of time > and put a great deal of effort into the site, and am transitioning to > devoting more resources to providing news and content. Tutorials, more > podcasts, and more written features are planned. I hope you will find some of > it useful. I also find it a little disheartening that you feel it appropriate > to attack someone's work and don't even take the time to proof read/correct > an email you're sending out to hundreds of others, which serves no purpose > but to put down someone else. > > 3. We've gone over and over the reasons for the moderation choices we make on > these lists. We can't please everyone. We really do try to provide a good > forum and a good web site that is useful for as many people as possible. > > Myself, the mods of these lists, and those of us who work on the web site are > not these terrible evil ogres some of you seem to believe we are. We all > volunteer our time for free to provide these things. We try to make them > valuable. > > Josh > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
