I agree with the forum rules, but I'm sick of them being used to proactively express opinions. I'm not going to search through the forums and search for a million examples, but they are there.
Jason has said that this community was built by the members. The fact is that I have never seen any polls asking the members for opinions on rules. I've never even seen any polls about who should be moderators!! Perhaps a search might find some, but I've been here a while and I have never stumbled across one. This site is run by a few overzealous idiots and I've got the feeling Jason is too busy with his own life to realize it. Either that or there is something weird going on.
Either way, I'm about done with this site. Sure I get a few questions answered, but I mainly come here with the intention of helping other people. There are other places I can go. Things need to change here. Something isn't right. My intuition tells me so.
It's funny how when anyone speaks out about an issue like this, they are encouraged to talk about it privately.
Well here is the straw that broke the camels back..
In regards to this post.. viewtopic.php?t=56090
Edit: For those who didn't notice, my answer was promptly removed
I sent patrikG a message..
9. Warez, copyright violation, or promotion of any other illegal activity may NOT be linked or expressed or posted in any form.
1. It's not warez
2. It's not copyright violation, he asked how to parse a string, not put copyright material on his website. It could have been a school project or anything.
3. It's not promotion or illegal activity to parse a string.
4. There were no links
5. Nothing was expressed.
You were not too lenient, you were too harsh.
He responded..
I wrote back..I ascertained whether or not it was a copyright violation. When the member had argued that it was not (despite sufficient proof), I restored the original content - hence my assertion that I was too lenient.
He wrote back..How can I contact Jason regarding this smurf? "I ascertained" What is that? Do you feel that you are more inteligent than a lawyer? Do you not realize that devnet can be sued for making assumptions such as what you ascertained?
I'm not going to send Jason a PM. I have sent them to him before and 4 months later it was still unread. I'm sure patrikG and all the other moderators know how to contact Jason. I feel like I was given incorrect information. I feel like these moderators are being overzelous control freaks. Sure feyd is a good programmer. He know's a hell of a lot more than I do when it comes to programming.. but frankly his social skills suck. I worked in customer service for 5 years at fortune 10 companies and these places wouldn't look twice at his resume unless it was for an IT job.You're most welcome to contact Jason, if you believe this to be necessary. Search for his username and PM him.
Flame me, hate me, ban me, I don't care.