I do get a bit tired of answering the same questions over and over again at the other site, but I DO NOT let that come across in my answer. I am there, and here, to learn and enjoy, and help others learn and enjoy. I think the site should be searched before asking questions. It can actually save time to read previously posted answers instead of waiting for a response.
Before I start a thread to ask a question, I do a search of this site, and a Bing search of the Internet, to see if I can come up with the answer for myself. But, in a running thread, I will ask questions, regarding the topic, without the research. I figure its a running conversation, and my question may not only enlighten me, it may enlighten others…or not.
As for direction to another thread, if that will actually be helpful, I appreciate when folks do that for me, and I have done that for others. But all too often, I have been directed to another thread, that I did read in my search, and it didn’t fully answer my question.
This is community of large scalers, and questions of large scale, or prototype, topics are what we should be discussing and helping each other with. I do not need to read someone putting down someone else for _____. We all have our own viewpoints, and they should be respected. One of the things that really torqued me off when I was younger, and it still does, is when someone tells me “You don’t want to do that” without explaining the whys. If there is a valid reason that I shouldn’t do something, I want to hear it. But just telling me what I don’t want to do something, as a blanket and complete explanation, makes the voice in the back of my head scream “You are not me, and you have no idea what I do and what I don’t want!” So in dissuading someone from doing something, a reasoned explanation as to why they shouldn’t would be helpful. A reasoned explanation, and not a personal attack. And no. I am not pointing any fingers to those here in this thread. I am speaking from past (LSOL) experience.
BTW, my comments about being adults, I meant that we should be able to put up reasoned responses, without resorting to personal attacks and name calling, like children sometimes do when they feel they are loosing an argument. As for growing up, I refuse to grow up. Grown ups are grumpy people, who are always worried about something. Something that usually never happens, and if it does, its not a bad as they thought it was going to be. I am not a grown up, I just play one in real life.
