Coders Response to Service Requests

[Boofo]

I'm pretty much of an idiot so I don't have to worry about anyone coming to me for anything.

[Chris M]

Originally Posted by Boofo

I'm pretty much of an idiot so I don't have to worry about anyone coming to me for anything.

Quoted for future laughing

And you're not an idiot... Just, er, slow

Satan

[AN-net]

Originally Posted by Boofo

I'm pretty much of an idiot so I don't have to worry about anyone coming to me for anything.

everyone is like "i need to hire someone to code but no one is answering my request. how about boofo?*laughing*hes old. yeah really old, can he even code? i think he released a few things, lets offer $10 and maybe someone will do it."

[KW802]

Originally Posted by hellsatan

Indeed - I selected I'm too busy, The pay is too low and The requests are not specific enough as my reasons for not responding...

Like AN-net, you can tell who and who not to help by their grammar as one thing, and the amount of posts they have here - People who can't string a sentence together and have less than 50 posts I won't even stop to try and understand their post, unless I know them

Ditto to the whole thing.

i can say that 75% of the requests are made by people that doesn't know what is the job to be done, and usually apply a title like : easy job, quick job, simple job ...

i've answered a lot of requests in the last year, and i can say that most were not even aware that we had to actually Evaluate/Develop/Code/Test/Install the jobs they requested...

i even receive requests by PM even if i did not write anywhere that i was available... looks like they think we will do the job just because we are coders...

[peterska2]

I've not done any since Feb and have no plans to do anything till 3.5 goes gold and I've actually taken the time to look over the updated code. Plus life has been pretty hectic and I've been advised to take things easy for at least the next 3 months coz I've been really ill and in hospital for 4 months this year.

It's annoying though when people say 'easy job - I just want it to blah blah blah' but what they don't think about is that this needs about 6 or 8 hours by the time you have wrote it, tested it, re-wrote it, tested it again, written install instructions, packaged it, mailed it, and then waited for the dreaded IM to go with 'help it don't work' coz they missed a step and to top it all they only want to pay $10 - $20 for it.

Simple installs at $5 or $10 are always handy but last time I looked these had got few and far between.

[Logikos]

I am constantly getting PMs to do work for them, or a link pointing to there request. I just ignore them now.

[Paul M]

I often seem to get them now, some simple ones I have responded to, others I don't (for time reasons given previously). There are also a small group of people who I have done work for in the past, who request additional stuff. I usually respond to them if I can fit the request in.

[Revan]

Ive gotten a couple of requests from PMs recently, one of them didn't bother to check back. But the other guy was actually very cool and understanding of how a coder does his job. He also provided detailed instructions from the start, which made me able to visualise how I was going to do the job. This made actually DOING it hella easier, and I completed the work within a week and got a paypal e-cheque as soon as I delivered the work. We trust eachother, so I knew he would pay up and he knows I will fix any problems he may encounter in the future.

So I lucked out
I don't normally respond to SR's because of the reasons everyone else stated.

[sabret00the]

i just assume by the time i got there it would've been done, sometimes i'll do soemthing if someone IM's me, other times i'll want to but get too busy