Why bother writing anything then? Or, what good is the forum if I am just told to go read the docs? It take less bandwidth and time to just say 'crack open this particular file' and 'edit this or that.'
Anyway, don't bother replying... It's a waste of time and resources.
UPDATE: I asked someone else, and she told me point blank and I did it in 30 seconds.
Deep breaths...
I thought pointing you at the exact example in the docs would be helpful enough. I have many many hours put into writing this, improving, supporting and spending my time getting it working on every system that comes along (An acurate figure would be difficult, but well over 100+ hours). Now I don't mind doing that, I like giving back the open source community, but when someone cannot be bothered to even read over the written instructions, even when specifically pointed to the exact parts they need to read and they get all uppity about the support they receive from me - it really saddens me.
There are a number of people here who would agree that I spent a lot of time helping them to get their systems working with this... People who were on a strangely configured servers, people with different subdomains, people with the beta... all legitamate problems that the docs could not help.
Or, what good is the forum if I am just told to go read the docs? It take less bandwidth and time to just say 'crack open this particular file' and 'edit this or that.'
I guess you could rephrase it like "what good are the doc's if people are just going to show up in the forum and ask?" It does not take less bandwidth and time to just say crack open this file and edit this... It takes me less time to point you to the EXACT place in the docs. It takes less bandwidth as the information only has to go from my server to your web browser. Not by me retyping it, posting it to the server and you downloading it again. If you did read the docs, you would have learned to help yourself. Then you could potentially help others. Like the old proverb goes... "Build a man a fire and he is warm for a night, Set a man on fire and he is warm the rest of his life".... Hmmm, well, it was something like that.
This forum is here to help people. Really. Showing you where to look is much more helpful for this sort of thing than just telling you what to do. Now if you did read the pages and still had a question, great - post away. That means something could be lacking in the docs and I would love to hear about it.
If you cannot be bothered to read the exact parts of the documentation I went out of my way to point you too, then I am going to spend my free time helping the people who have actually problems, not just a sense of self entitlement. Either that or fixing cpmfetch for CPG 1.4.1 BETA or figuring out the other three open questions that actually seem like problems. Its times like this that make me question why I really bother. I mean I wrote this in the beginning to solve a need I had. Then I figured I would just polish it up a bit and put it on Coppermines forums so maybe one or two other people maybe benefit from it. Then a few requests trickled in, a few people had questions... Do I do it for fame? Do I get paid for this? Do I feel some deep seated need be attain alpha geek status? Nope. I do not get money, my page actually says if you prove a donation to a non-profit from my list you will get extra help - Do I get fame? Lol...
Nope, I do it purely because I feel a sort of responsibility for what I hath wrought - and because once in a while someone goes out of thier way to drop me an e-mail and say "Hey, thanks for the script - works good" without needing help. I deal with the bugs, but its the one thank you I get once in a while that makes it worth continuing. Although I do also appreciate the "love the script" even when it does come with a question.
There, I feel better - well, not really. Hope you do too.
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