Aaaaah, beautiful. I really miss this about the old CS site - it doesn't seem to happen as much now - when some poor, passing stranger would misguidedly post obvious homework, random bollocks, some vague request for help, or thinly disguised spam with a hyperlink, and attract a flurry of scathing sarcasm in return. It truly warms my cockles.
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RE: General Wtf- Newbie here- no coding just fucked phone...
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Goodbye TDWTF Forums
Another one bites the dust. Bit of a non-entity, so who cares really. Even on the old Forum, even though I'd been a reader since 2004 & a member since 2006, I only had about 150 posts. But it was good fun. Whereas what this is, is shit.
So I'm kind of indifferent about, well, most of the technical issues with this discourse thing. I generally agree with the whole, "if you can post, then post" thing. To be honest I don’t even mind the infinite scrolling that much. Its annoyingly slow on the mobile and juddery even on the PC, but meh, I can live with it.
I don't suppose this post will make any difference to anything, but WTF, might as well make my exit interview observations.
I'll diverge a little. My StackOverflow account, also about 5 years old I think, has only around 25-30 reputation even though I use the site for reference quite a lot (3-6 times / month roughly). And that’s because of this:
I find it for the first time via google and it provides a sound answer to my problem without the expert sex change nonsense - brilliant! I can even upvote the guy who posted the answer! ... need to make an account. Ok no problem. Now, upvote. What? WTF? I need to ask subjectively good questions or provide subjectively good answers before I’m allowed to say “thanks” to this guy for a good answer? And you will arbitrarily decide at what point I’m allowed to do that, how many fucking gold stars the teacher gives out before I can pat someone on the back for being helpful. Right, screw that.
Some time later, I read an answer to a SQL question that’s dangerous – in some circumstances it won’t behave in a manor that fixes the actual problem – Downvote! Oh. Right. Some higher arbitrary amount of fucking gold stars. Never mind – comment to warn people. What? What the fucking fuck? Another fucking stupid arbitrary limit before I can even make comments?!? So also then, I can’t even ask people to elaborate if I think I can fix their problem until … oh forget it. I’m not a moron, I don’t like to be treated like one by some cock running a FAQ site.
You get the idea. Some people seem to relish the whole Stack reputation thing (Jon Skeet, heh), I fucking hate it for the micromanaging, patronising, horrible bullshit nonsense that it is. You can’t do that yet, you need to suck a few more cocks before we’ll let you do this, teacher doesn't like you enough yet. And the e-peen waving, and bickering over rep. – someone else’s arbitrary counter! - truly dreadful.
And now it’s infected what used to be my favourite forum. Patronising yellow pop-ups telling me how to post, limits to what I can do within certain time frames because the community doesn't like/trust/whatever me enough yet (in the software author’s megalomanic opinion), maximum thresholds on how often I can do the other. Et-fucking-cetera.
Maybe I’m a dinosaur, but it’s a toxic trend, and I want nothing more to do with it. It's very sad, but I suppose, "all good things".
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RE: You *will* be chipped. Whether you like it or not.
@Gąska said in You *will* be chipped. Whether you like it or not.:
@BernieTheBernie with or without a 100 page primer on political situation in Poland necessary to understand what this meme is about?
With, please.
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RE: Bumping Threads WTF
@tster said:
years from now this thread will be bumped.
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RE: I heard you like tables...
@boomzilla said in I heard you like tables...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in I heard you like tables...:
Ugly, but mostly functional in a early 2000's sort of way.
Um, actually, I really like that layout. Like...when I go to this sort of page I want to do something. But there's always some "news" story type thing there and the meat is hidden down at the bottom of the page or behind a menu or whatever.
Just show me the stuff!
100%. And so few people seem to agree. Glitz, newsdumps & shiny distractions can all just fuck off please so I can see what I need to get to quickly and easily.
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RE: Find and Replace, by way of Ctrl+F, Ctrl+V
What the ... I don't even ....
This is a WTF I had to double check because I simply did not believe it. But fuck me, it's really true. My god Microsoft - Here's an idea for you - why not, erm, remove keyboard input from Visual Studio? And create a pointy-clicky interface instead for entering syntax instead? Keyboards are so fucking last decade.
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RE: The links that weren't
Hmmm. The working one, presumably from "ironing Service in a box".
http://www.ironingservice.net/platinumironingservice/index.html
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RE: Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?
Let's see if we can push this thread to 20+ pages too.
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RE: You *will* be chipped. Whether you like it or not.
@Gąska said in You *will* be chipped. Whether you like it or not.:
@BernieTheBernie with or without a 100 page primer on political situation in Poland necessary to understand what this meme is about?
With, please.
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RE: General Wtf- Newbie here- no coding just fucked phone...
Aaaaah, beautiful. I really miss this about the old CS site - it doesn't seem to happen as much now - when some poor, passing stranger would misguidedly post obvious homework, random bollocks, some vague request for help, or thinly disguised spam with a hyperlink, and attract a flurry of scathing sarcasm in return. It truly warms my cockles.
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RE: I heard you like tables...
@boomzilla said in I heard you like tables...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in I heard you like tables...:
Ugly, but mostly functional in a early 2000's sort of way.
Um, actually, I really like that layout. Like...when I go to this sort of page I want to do something. But there's always some "news" story type thing there and the meat is hidden down at the bottom of the page or behind a menu or whatever.
Just show me the stuff!
100%. And so few people seem to agree. Glitz, newsdumps & shiny distractions can all just fuck off please so I can see what I need to get to quickly and easily.
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Goodbye TDWTF Forums
Another one bites the dust. Bit of a non-entity, so who cares really. Even on the old Forum, even though I'd been a reader since 2004 & a member since 2006, I only had about 150 posts. But it was good fun. Whereas what this is, is shit.
So I'm kind of indifferent about, well, most of the technical issues with this discourse thing. I generally agree with the whole, "if you can post, then post" thing. To be honest I don’t even mind the infinite scrolling that much. Its annoyingly slow on the mobile and juddery even on the PC, but meh, I can live with it.
I don't suppose this post will make any difference to anything, but WTF, might as well make my exit interview observations.
I'll diverge a little. My StackOverflow account, also about 5 years old I think, has only around 25-30 reputation even though I use the site for reference quite a lot (3-6 times / month roughly). And that’s because of this:
I find it for the first time via google and it provides a sound answer to my problem without the expert sex change nonsense - brilliant! I can even upvote the guy who posted the answer! ... need to make an account. Ok no problem. Now, upvote. What? WTF? I need to ask subjectively good questions or provide subjectively good answers before I’m allowed to say “thanks” to this guy for a good answer? And you will arbitrarily decide at what point I’m allowed to do that, how many fucking gold stars the teacher gives out before I can pat someone on the back for being helpful. Right, screw that.
Some time later, I read an answer to a SQL question that’s dangerous – in some circumstances it won’t behave in a manor that fixes the actual problem – Downvote! Oh. Right. Some higher arbitrary amount of fucking gold stars. Never mind – comment to warn people. What? What the fucking fuck? Another fucking stupid arbitrary limit before I can even make comments?!? So also then, I can’t even ask people to elaborate if I think I can fix their problem until … oh forget it. I’m not a moron, I don’t like to be treated like one by some cock running a FAQ site.
You get the idea. Some people seem to relish the whole Stack reputation thing (Jon Skeet, heh), I fucking hate it for the micromanaging, patronising, horrible bullshit nonsense that it is. You can’t do that yet, you need to suck a few more cocks before we’ll let you do this, teacher doesn't like you enough yet. And the e-peen waving, and bickering over rep. – someone else’s arbitrary counter! - truly dreadful.
And now it’s infected what used to be my favourite forum. Patronising yellow pop-ups telling me how to post, limits to what I can do within certain time frames because the community doesn't like/trust/whatever me enough yet (in the software author’s megalomanic opinion), maximum thresholds on how often I can do the other. Et-fucking-cetera.
Maybe I’m a dinosaur, but it’s a toxic trend, and I want nothing more to do with it. It's very sad, but I suppose, "all good things".
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RE: The links that weren't
Hmmm. The working one, presumably from "ironing Service in a box".
http://www.ironingservice.net/platinumironingservice/index.html
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RE: Find and Replace, by way of Ctrl+F, Ctrl+V
What the ... I don't even ....
This is a WTF I had to double check because I simply did not believe it. But fuck me, it's really true. My god Microsoft - Here's an idea for you - why not, erm, remove keyboard input from Visual Studio? And create a pointy-clicky interface instead for entering syntax instead? Keyboards are so fucking last decade.
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RE: Discourse vs. Community Server
WTF is this fucking discourse bullshit? Good god it's fucking painful.