Why are vBorg members so up tight?

[Spank]

I think interpretation has a lot to do with it. There's a lot of people that post here, where English is not their first language so probably language barriers have a lot to to do with it.

I always like to have a happy attitude, and will help out where I can. When you help out in threads you tend to get a lot of PMs asking for help, which is fine. I don't mind helping out because I too get a lot of help here. I've got no "beef" with anyone here, and I like to think no one has any "beef" with me.

*twirls out of the thread*

i am a language barrier myself, a dyslexic one.. lol

btw, when you have a large community like vb.org, you give the Advisors the task to answer these repeted questions about postbit etc... they are called the "blues" in the army anyway... first level of engagement. first killed when something goes wrong.. lol

[FreshFroot]

I can say the vBorg community has changed from the old days. Many good people have left, and things have changed quite a lot. Just the feel itself on this forum is different.

ahh... I miss the old days... back in the days when we had 3.x and firefly was here.

[iogames]

Hey you never talk to me! my Mom says 'I'm nice!'

[cheat-master30]

I try to be nice to everyone, and I've had a lot of people say I'm a nice member. And I'm willing to help anyone who asks for help and to support various modifications. But I don't really notice much rudeness here, other than the amount of ignored topics by various members.

[iogames]

Some complaint about Mods = Hey! they are Volunteers
Some complaint about the Users = Hey! since you register you belong to the same kind/rank/level
Some complaint about the Structure = Some video tutorials, Guidelines for releasing will drop the rate of problems
Some complaint about a payment/rankin system = We complaint enough to start fighting for money

p.s. Since you don't see an 'Ads by Google' here, you must realize everything here is about effort, service and community spirit

[cheat-master30]

Originally Posted by iogames

Some complaint about the Structure = Some video tutorials will drop the rate of problems

vBulletin's own product needs these kinds of tutorials more, because the current FAQ and documentation is still lacking and rather confusing to new users.

[Jase2]

I think the users and staff here are always bickering with each other. Not being funny, but I know that staff here have pushed away a number of members'.

[Brad]

I think everyone here spends too much time on the computer. I stay away from computers when I can help it these days and let me tell you I enjoy the time I spend working on them a lot more because of it. That said I got two laptops and two desktops here, writing a paper on one, encoding on one, fixing another, and posting this with the fourth. ^^

Anyway I've never felt like I've been treated "poorly" by users. I have felt like some of the users can't think for themselves though! Imagine spending two weeks working on something and releasing it only to get a reply like;

"It doesn't work! Help me!".

I can not help this person. I have no idea why it's not working, what they may have screwed up during installation, if it's user error or a bug in my code... Users rarely post good replies when asking for help, they rarely make good bug reports, they seem to expect us coders to be able to read their minds...well we can't!

Some have been outright rude to me in the past of course so I just stop giving support to people like that and they seem to take the hint in time.

There are some people here that are "coders" that act like they have some kind of god-complex going on. Like the rude users they are the rarity not the rule.

Anyway like I said you all spend too much time on the PC. Get a hobby outside of it or a girlfriend or something. Hell have some kids! I'm sure you'll appreciate your online time a lot more after you have a few little versions of you running around the house.

[DieselMinded]

Im a supervisor in a Big Plant of over 100 employees work 48 Hours per week Swing shift and drive an hour both ways , own my house and have kids , My forum is my Hobby being here makes it better , Not everyone on here is a student