Sad thread

[Homestead]

I was asked to leave, I think it s time I should do it, Perhaps somewhere on the net we ll meet again....
.............
Bye,

[Deniz]

Banned again huh homey?



oh well...

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by Deniz
Banned again huh homey?

This should become an annual tradition .

[mdmd]

Huh. Have we ever seen Xeon and Homestead at the same time ?

[aio]

Banned? I didn't notice any unsuitable behavior demonstrated by Homestead -- though I may have missed something because I was rarely here from June to December last year.

[Andreas Masur]

Originally posted by aio
Banned? I didn't notice any unsuitable behavior demonstrated by Homestead -- though I may have missed something because I was rarely here from June to December last year.

Besides that...we (as moderators) will get this unsuitable behaviour out of public eyes...

[VuQ_Le]

Originally posted by aio
Banned? I didn't notice any unsuitable behavior demonstrated by Homestead -- though I may have missed something because I was rarely here from June to December last year.

Advanced programmers will always know how to select the best functions in the API_system call interface so that their project could be completed on time.
That's the thing in life that she might have not understood yet, or perhaps she already forgot.

[VuQ_Le]

Originally posted by Andreas Masur
Besides that...we (as moderators) will get this unsuitable behaviour out of public eyes...

????

[aio]

Originally posted by VuQ_Le
That's the thing in life that she might have not understood yet, or perhaps she already forgot.

Oh. She -- I thought he.

Originally posted by VuQ_Le
????

Andreas probably mean that they immediately took them out whenever one occurs -- and I never did get a chance to see one.

[VuQ_Le]

Originally posted by aio
Oh. She -- I thought he.

Only when someone like your wife/mom says Yes if my question
to her is the same as what you really thought of...
Agree ?

Andreas probably mean that they immediately took them out whenever one occurs -- and I never did get a chance to see one.

I also Love to see it...

[John E]

Poor old Homestead has been banned.

Much as I found him irritating, I can’t help feeling sorry for the poor guy. At the end of the day, his only crime was to jump into the deep end without really having the skills to keep himself afloat. This started me wondering. Should there be a virtual equivalent of a “paddling pool” at CodeGuru?

I know it sounds absurd but just run with this for a minute. As CodeGuru becomes better known and more successful it seems, like many successful web sites, to be attracting its inevitable share of the world’s dimwits. Of course, I’m not suggesting Homey was a dimwit – in fact, I’m not berating anyone in particular – but I can’t help noticing there’s been a sharp increase in the number of people who seem to be joining the forums to ask stupefyingly dumb questions. Questions like “I wrote a program which runs fine on my PC but it won’t run on my friend’s PC. What’s wrong?” Do they thing we’re a bunch of clairvoyants or something?

Even better, somebody wrote recently, “I want to design a neural network that can scan hundreds of bitmaps and learn which ones are male and which are female. Who can tell me how to do this?” (as if such an application could be knocked together in a couple of afternoons!!!) So far, I’ve resisted temptation but sometimes, I really am tempted to reply, “have you thought about finding a decent programmer and paying them to write your application?”

We all have to start somewhere and nobody likes to deride a person who’s just taking those first, tentative steps. Equally, I don’t think anyone would like to see CodeGuru becoming a site that was purely for ‘Elitists’ – but, let’s face it, how many other professions are there where the “pros” will actively provide help and encouragement to amateurs and idiots? Not many….

I didn’t realise how low the forums were sinking until I read Sam Hobbs’ thread (in Visual C++) about NULL pointers. Although it’s caused a bit of friction among some of the “big guns”, for me, it’s probably been the most interesting thread I’ve read in years. Far better than the usual, “Why doesn’t my app work?” kind of thread. This brings me back to the paddling pool idea. Is there a case for some sort of “absolute beginners” forum? A kind of “quarantine” area where everybody would have to go (when they first join) until a moderator decides they’re fit to be let loose in the rest of the site? As Andreas pointed out, the moderators already do a fair bit of “weeding” to remove posts that will just annoy everybody, so maybe it isn’t necessary – or maybe a quarantine area could be a better way of doing it. Either way, it’s just a thought…..

Any views....?

[Andreas Masur]

Originally posted by aio
Andreas probably mean that they immediately took them out whenever one occurs -- and I never did get a chance to see one.

Yes...that is what Andreas meant...

[Andreas Masur]

Originally posted by John E
As Andreas pointed out, the moderators already do a fair bit of “weeding” to remove posts that will just annoy everybody, so maybe it isn’t necessary – or maybe a quarantine area could be a better way of doing it. Either way, it’s just a thought…..

Well..just to point it out...we (as the moderators) do not sort out post based on the general necessity. What I was referring to are insulting posts etc. - in other words posts that violate the Acceptable Use Policy...

[Andy Tacker]

Originally posted by John E

Well, i feel that Codeguru dont distinguish people according to thier knowledge. Anybody can post his/her question if it, as Andreas pointed out, is not causing so called "Noise". Anybody can reply and help and nobody from Codeguru will interfere unless it is entirely "Off-Topic".

[John E]

Hi Andy - you're spot on in saying that CodeGuru doesn't distinguish people on the basis of their programming knowledge. I'm just asking the question "is this a good thing or a bad thing?" Should there be a minimum level of skill required in order to post freely? People without that level of skill could still post in their own special forum - where they could still obtain help from any CodeGuru member. That forum could also be used for quarantining people who violate the rules. Maybe they could be sent there for a while instead of being banned.