Re: New release - DS - bot kicking out not 100% OK -
27-04-2004
*sigh*... Why do you think anybody would attack or flame you if you didn't know how a certain forum function works? I made a mistake with the edit function myself, so what? No problem! I survived, everybody else survived. Is it really so bad if someone explains a function to you right here instead of sending a PM? Nobody wants to make fun of you or get rid of you. It's no shame to misunderstand something; it happens all the time and to everyone of us. If I make a mistake and somebody says "hey T Wrecks, you did it the wrong way. It works like this..." I don't have to defend myself! Why would I? A correction is not an attack. If someone had said "That's typical of you, T Wrecks, you're just a stupid asshole", THEN I would defend myself, because that's an insult - it doesn't help and it's rude. But if someone "teaches" me how to do something right, what's the problem? Nobody here is a god or special or whatever - nobody is perfect and so superior that any attempt to teach him something is like insulting his perfection. We all learn from others, during our entire lives... I just don't understand why this would be a problem for anyone...
But look how you posted your problem after SF reminded you that you can use edit instead of posting twice: You could have said "I tried to edit, but it doesn't work somehow. What's going wrong?" - Nobody would have taken offense. The way you posted it made it sound very rude, just as if you had said: "Oh yeah, smart ass? Well, it doesn't, and you are obviously too stupid to notice". I KNOW! You didn't say that. But you sounded like that. It's the tone, you know. I don't know if this is intended or not. Maybe it would be a good idea to leave persons out of your bug descriptions altogether? You know, if you just say "this and that doesn't work for me", nothing can go wrong. And please, please, if someone answers and tells you "well, it works like this" - don't think he wants to attack you!! Or to behave as if he was your boss. All they want to do is to help you out, that's what this forum is for. Relax...
Ok, back to the edit function: As long as your own post is the last in a thread, you can click on "edit" and change anything you like. Nothing special will appear, only your changed post. If you want to show the others that you edited something, you can write something like SF did, "EDIT" and "/EDIT" or whatever. This was typed in by hand, the forum adds nothing like this automatically.
Edit is a bit "cleaner" (if available), because it looks a bit strange when somebody has 2 or 3 posts in a row...

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