Forum Specifics (help vs favor)

New features which should be implemented in Porteus; suggestions are welcome. All questions or problems with testing releases (alpha, beta, or rc) should go in their relevant thread here, rather than the Bug Reports section.
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Re: Forum Specifics (help vs favor)

Post#1 by donald » 30 Aug 2015, 14:24

Hi
That's not intended to sound rude, it's just a reminder.

We are a bunch of volunteers who are willing to help people with problems out of the goodness of our hearts.
This isn't "paid-for support."
So,a) do it yourself,
or b) if you're lucky, you will find someone who is interested in doing the job for you.
Simply remember that you haven't paid the developer who wrote the software or the people online who provide the tech support.
They don't owe you anything.
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Re: Forum Specifics (help vs favor)

Post#2 by donald » 30 Aug 2015, 17:05

well then...what exactly did you mean?
Please explain and use simple words/sentences.
You can surely imagine that I'm not good in "read between the Lines"
in a foreign Language.

Using Linux has always meant (to me), that I have to learn, I have to do.
I may ask for help when I'm stuck, but I would never expect that someone else
is interested in solving my problem, nor being noticed at all.

Interest..That's the main point...I'm free to decide if something interests me and
let me spend some Time with it.

--> "Thats why Windows and OS/X dominates the desktop".."Linux could have a greater market-share"..."IT industry".."more potential"..etc <--
How long will this tirade go on?..and more important, who cares?...oh, I know, the Money-maker do, but not the "Freedom-fighter"..no?
Personally I don't care about the (linux) market-share %
or if anyone else uses Linux.
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Re: Forum Specifics (help vs favor)

Post#3 by donald » 30 Aug 2015, 23:05

Let me pick out the point at which to separate our views.
--> If the title is called "requests" then there is an obligation...<--
Nope
Who is addressed by a (module) request?
As I understand it, the request is addressed to the whole community.
Now who of us (the community) has the obligation to give an answer?

An obligation would only exist if we had a contract.
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Hey Mods
shouldn't this be filed under "general chat"?
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Re: Forum Specifics (help vs favor)

Post#4 by donald » 30 Aug 2015, 23:45

Oh...do we have a misunderstanding because of my not so fine grained wording?
When does this conversation became a "thread jacking"
Anyhow, if you are seeing it this way, I'm dropping out of this.
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Re: Forum Specifics (help vs favor)

Post#5 by Bogomips » 31 Aug 2015, 00:41

Opinion of Impartial Observer: Looks like hairs are being split here, and I have become completely lost. :Search:
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Re: Forum Specifics (help vs favor)

Post#6 by donald » 31 Aug 2015, 04:29

@ blue
After reading your last post
I have to admit that I was out of track.
I would have never thought that someone would begin a discussion
(in a tech forum) on the Meaning of the word "request".

However
with the help of google translate:
(Module request)
definition of request:
"asking politely or formally for something"
which makes sense

definition of suggestion:
"an idea or plan put forward for consideration"
not so much

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Re: Forum Specifics (help vs favor)

Post#7 by Bogomips » 31 Aug 2015, 12:46

IMHO this is a semantic discussion (suggestion vs. request), remote from the real world mix of native and non-native English speakers, who will be perusing that section of the forum, and their perceived meaning of the word request. And for the non-native speaker I guess it is which word in their own language that has most often come to mind when they have come across request in English. (de: Anregung oder Aufforderung, stretching my German) 8)

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