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RE: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...


> Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu> writes:
> > BTW, did it occur to anyone that the rapid and multiple responses to
> > this email -- which, given its tone and lack of specific content
> > qualifies as a troll by any objective measure -- serve to ENCOURAGE
> > this sort of insistent, badgering, and rude behavior?
> 
> Yeah, this is weird.  People ask polite questions and get slapped with
> "*eye roll* it's free software newbie, read the FAQ" ... this guy asks
> *this* and people rush to his assistance.
> 

It's the time-honored "Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease" effect.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot. 


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