<Andre for instance is German but does speak English well> German is my first language as well, but I am not responding about just one incident. The abruptness, having to be reprimanded about doing my homework is great if I want to be a programmer. I like many others here only want help and have been willing to pay for it. For over two years I have come back to this site from time to time and alway get treated the same way. I've paid for help and still have the same issues! "Do your homework first, read all our threads, check to see if the solution has already been solved, read our sticky notes, you're only allowed one question... etc." Common guys... this is not grade school. I've done the research and tried to find the answer. I'm sorry but some of the language I just don't understand... hence the reason I came here for help. I don't have countless hours to sit around reading a book worth of material and alway get a back slap remark to do my research. I don't want to do any more research. I have had so called experts on your site spend countless hours on my site only to tell me that they couldn't help me in the end. Three people now and I have the same exact issues. I've come to you because I thought you had the answers. You call me an inconsiderate person? You think my threads come across that way. Well maybe this one thread does, but put together the years of frustration and standard procedures that are slapped at me, others coming here would have a more clear picture of the way things are handled here. I always start off polite and always end up frustrated.
I appreciate that Coppermine is an open source program. I am understanding and considerate up to a point. But, when I am constantly made to feel like a child. I dedicate countless hours to help others, but I'm not here to brag... but, I also don't need a lesson on how to care for people. <If you are too lazy to follow those links and read that information then why should we put the effort in to help you?> This statement is just another example of how you continually piss me off. Here you start name calling and you guys have no clue who I am and what I do on a daily basis. Of course you are in control here and can just bash and trash anyone who dares to voice a disgruntled opinion.
I think I have used coppermine for around five or six years now and instead of it getting better for me it has only gotten worse. Every time I try to work out the bugs, I am told to upgrade and it always creates more problems than it was worth. Have you really tried to direct me to help? Are you listening to my problems? Every time you direct me to something that I have already done and tried. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't a last resort. I go by what the people who have worked on my site have told me and then when they give up on me I'm left trying to pick up the pieces and make my site work again.
You ask that I don't understand the meaning of ruthless slander. Well let me see:
Main Entry: ruthless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mean, heartless
Synonyms: adamant, barbarous, brutal, callous, cold, cold-blooded, cruel, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog, feral, ferocious, fierce, grim, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, ironfisted, killer, malevolent, merciless, mortal, obdurate, pitiless, rancorous, relentless, remorseless, revengeful, sadistic, savage, severe, stern, stony, surly, unappeasable, unfeeling, unforgiving, unmerciful, unrelenting, unsympathetic, unyielding, vicious, vindictive, without pity
Main Entry: slander
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: scandalous remark
Synonyms: aspersion, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, black eye, calumny, defamation, depreciation, detraction, dirt*, dirty linen, disparagement, hit*, libel, lie, misrepresentation, muckraking, mud, mud-slinging, obloquy, rap, scandal, slam*, slime, smear, tale
You and others that run this board come across to me as mean and backbiting. You'd rather sling mud and resort to calling me lazy, instead of privately messaging me and trying to communicate in a way where something could be resolved. Maybe that is why only a hand-full of your threads are resolved. Oh yes, I choose the correct words... You are adamant, ferocious and fierce defending your ground. Without pity you are easy to defame people like me... by belittling me.
About two years ago I pleaded for help and was told that I needed to place a price I was willing to pay in order to receive any. Please don't come across too noble about your cause to help humanity. After jumping through all the hoops, being scolded like a small school boy, and yes I had some threads deleted that had no profanity in them... I never got the solution I came here for. Call me insane for coming here again trying to get a different result. Go ahead insult me some more and call me a "spoon fed" baby. Perhaps you should look at how you treat people and read your own words again. At best you are a hypocrite.