On 28.06.10 15:05, scott wrote:
>> No, it would not be more productive because SharkD's goal is not to help,
>
> What does his goal have to do with it?

The goal to provide all of these resources is to share knowledge for the 
mutual benefit of users and developers of POV-Ray. They do not exist for 
personal entertainment of other interests (exception: the newsgroup 
povray.off-topic).

> If you'd updated the bug tracker
> instructions with Chris' suggestion rather than writing a driveling
> reply about SharkD we might be getting somewhere! Hint: Updating the
> instructions will make it clearer for future users, calling someone
> stupid won't

Writing explicit rules to cover every possible case, or every case that ever 
comes up, is a pure waste of time and the net result is nobody will read 
them. I think I made the point clear on how explicit rules could be ;-)

And there is a difference between pointing that out to someone and calling 
them stupid. However, resorting to name-calling as a response is a dead-end 
solution!

 > (in fact it might even drive people away from making suggestions)

And yes, a community is not about accepting someone who refuses to fit in.

Common sense suggests that making suggestions is way different from stuffing 
them into everybody's face in every possible way.

	Thorsten

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