is the forum support good? - Page 2

Atrocities · #11 May 31st, 2001, 09:56 AM

I am not Richard, but I can tell you that YES Aaron is quite busy. In fact, he is extremely busy.

From what I gather, he likes to keep to himself thus being PRIVATE means he does not post at this or other forums that I am aware of. At least, I can not recall in recent memory ever reading anything he as posted.

I do know that he does appear to read this forum though.

Hope that help answer some of your questions.

[This message has been edited by Atrocities (edited 31 May 2001).]

PsychoTechFreak · #12 May 31st, 2001, 12:07 PM

Maybe Aaron is posting sometimes undercover to this forum. I can imagine, that he sometimes would like to check out the opinions to a new idea or something similar to this. If he would do this without alias then I guess the responses would not be very objective.

Lemmy · #13 May 31st, 2001, 12:58 PM

ok ok, i confess, i'm Aaron....

ps. this is just a joke, i'm not Aaron, please don't ask me to change anything about se4 because i am not really Aaron.
One more time to make it absolutely clear, i am not Aaron.

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Zarix · #14 May 31st, 2001, 02:53 PM

Aaron used to post sometimes to se4 yahoo group. It was when MM didn't have a publisher. I think there is enough support for the community. Answering all Posts at this forum would take huge amount of time. And if you add all questions from other se4 forums the amount would double.

Richard · #15 May 31st, 2001, 04:20 PM

Yes I did mean that Aaron was a person who kept to himself. It is true he used to post some to this forum (do a search) and to the yahoo community, but like most introverted programmers he likes to rely on us extroverted PR folks to talk to the general community.

Here is what I recommend. If you have some specific question drop him a line. If you don't here from him in a day or two drop me a line and I can remind him to look into it.

Remember each forum works differently, I think this setup works well even if it doesn't work like the AOW forums

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klausD · #16 May 31st, 2001, 07:51 PM

thanks for your answers, folks.

I respect a persons personality. Now I understand why Aaron does act like he acts. I will close my rant with an apology to all I may have upset. Especially to Aaron and Richard.

I would like to say yes to your offer Richard, an I will write Aaron an email in the next one or two days about the 2 hot questions I posted below. And I will if you allow post Aarons answer at this forum.

Thanks again and bye
klaus

PurpleRhino · #17 May 31st, 2001, 09:51 PM

I have an idea... maybe its not that good, but its an idea. Would it be possible to setup a weekly 'forum' with MM, SG, and the people here to have a 'meeting of the minds', so to speak. How it would work is that each week we, the forum members, select 5 (give or take) questions that we can give/post. Then SG sends it to Aaron, who can send his responses to us through SG. That way we could potentially reduce the personal e-mails that Aaron gets, while getting a PUBLIC response to our most important topics at that time. Who knows, maybe it could also work in reverse... maybe Aaron would also send us questions? (One can dream

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Anyway, just a thought... Yeah or Nah?

Q · #18 June 1st, 2001, 11:22 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Richard:
Here is what I recommend. If you have some specific question drop him a line. If you don't here from him in a day or two drop me a line and I can remind him to look into it.

That is a very good proposal and a very nice offer from you. I will certainly use it in the future.
Thank you very much.

capnq · #19 June 1st, 2001, 05:14 PM

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which reminds me, what about a poll feature on the forum...it was mentioned before by other members but i never heard from it again.

and i mean that Users can start their own polls, not just SG.

The Last time it was discussed, Richard said user-defined polls would be too hard to implement on the site.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Baron Munchausen · #20 June 1st, 2001, 05:18 PM

quote:
Originally posted by LemmyM:
Yeah!
for all of the reasons PurpleRhino mentioned, which reminds me, what about a poll feature on the forum...it was mentioned before by other members but i never heard from it again.

and i mean that Users can start their own polls, not just SG.

[This message has been edited by LemmyM (edited 01 June 2001).]

Aiiiieeeee!!! No! Not user polls!

This is what ruined the old SE IV Center forums. You couldn't find the active threads for all the polls floating up the topics list.