Tigereye wrote:QUOTE (Tigereye @ Jan 9 2009, 08:24 PM) bashing a coder
Holy crap that is rude! What are you? Some kind of coding genius? Apparently, and a unsocial unhelpful one at that! The Fedralman of programming? Don't try to apply for work at my company. Actually, with that attiude, you will (hopefully) not get work anywhere.
I have also only met resistance in the few attempts I have made to develop something for allegiance ("help out"). And solely by the high up admins. You can bash people all you want, but I assure you that a "feel free to experiment, here's the data you want, by the way why not try this and this ..." attitude is WAY more productive. Seeing how it's still like this (and apparently more people than me experienced this) new innovations will be slow to appear.
My experience with this crap... I was frustrated that there were no stats when i first started playing. So I made a little webpage experiment where people were given two squadded players and had to vote which one was the better off them. Sure, it wasn't foolproof (some xt person found an exploit), but it showed some interesting results. Pook wrote back in my thread once i prsented the results with "LOL you suck, here's my leaderboard and its way better you noob" and made the leaderboard we currently have availible to the public (the top 10 was pretty much the same in both). You $#@!ers have such a bad atittude and I have felt like a 10 year kid old asking for candy whenever I have tried to offer my help. So I just stopped and played the game. It's a shame, really. I wonder what other coders (or just helpful people with an idea) have thought like me.
(It's probably relevant: I have coded for 15 years, hobbyist, active in the demoscene, studied the topic for 6 years, now work as systems developer building distributed radiology systems that will save your worthless lives)
