Re: #macdev/#iphonedev ban, in need of sympathy
Re: #macdev/#iphonedev ban, in need of sympathy
- Subject: Re: #macdev/#iphonedev ban, in need of sympathy
- From: Gregory Casamento <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 22:54:29 -0400
Patrick,
There are alternative channels on FreeNode to discuss Mac/iPhone
development. You might give #macosxdev a shot since it seems to have
developers in it who know what they're doing and are relatively nice.
GC
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Patrick M. Rutkowski
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Sorry, this is all just really frustrating, and I guess I was running
> under the false assumption that #macdev/#iphone and the mailing lists
> are the same user community :-/
>
> My apologies for the language. Your right, I shouldn't have posted
> this to the list at all.
>
> -Patrick
>
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Barry Skidmore <email@hidden> wrote:
>> I'd ban you just for your language personally. The run on sentences and
>> half thought out bad logic aside.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On May 2, 2010, at 7:30 PM, "Patrick M. Rutkowski" <email@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I just got kick/banned from #macdev and #iphondev. I was asking an
>>> exceptionally complicated NSStream question in #iphonedev, and though
>>> I got a lot of pseudo-answers, nobody really even understood the
>>> question to begin with; I hand't even gotten far enough in physically
>>> typing out the text explaining the problem, so they couldn't possibly
>>> have gotten the point.
>>>
>>> After enough trying there, I went to #macdev instead, looking for
>>> alternative thoughts. Fortunately, someone there was finally able to
>>> understand the question, but only after dozens and dozen of lines of
>>> IRCing in a PM. He gave some pointers, and now it's all worked out.
>>>
>>> However, in the mean time, another user in #macdev started bitching at
>>> me about reposting the question when I already supposedly got "loads
>>> of answers" in #iphonedev (which I most definitely did not).
>>>
>>> I say "bitching" because he wasn't just politely reminding me that
>>> re-posting question is frowned up. His words were of a condensing
>>> sort, and he was _bitching_ about it. So, I said "fuck you, /ignore",
>>> and put him on "/ignore" Immediately after that, the admin RTFM_FTW
>>> banned me, and he's not willing to lift it.
>>>
>>> I get banned from #iphonedev and #macdev on a very regular basis.
>>> Don't quote me on the numbers, but I think it's something like once
>>> per month, sometimes maybe more. Every time it's by this abusive admin
>>> RTFM_FTW. I've had open disputes with him in the past. Eventually I
>>> politely told him that I didn't think we should interact anymore, and
>>> then put him on a permanent "/ignore" in my IRC client. But the bans
>>> keep coming anyway :-/
>>>
>>> I feel that I'm being discriminated against. The bans keep coming from
>>> RTFM_FTW, and from nobody else.
>>>
>>> I wish I could put some sort of injunction on RTFM_FTW banning me,
>>> because I'm certain no other admins would.
>>>
>>> I'm not really sure what to do here. I'm really missing
>>> #macdev/#iphonedev right now :-(
>>>
>>> -Patrick
>>>
>>> P.S
>>> If you're on here RTFM_FTW, fuck you. Just leave me the fuck alone
>>> already. I don't want to talk to you, and you don't want to talk to
>>> me; we don't like each other, and that's fine. But stop fucking
>>> banning me already, it's an abuse of your position. Feel free to ask
>>> another op to ban me, and if that other op feel that it's fit, then
>>> I'll be fine with a ban from _them_. But I doubt that's likely to ever
>>> happen, because 90% of your reason for banning me is due to the
>>> lasting dislike of me that you have from that time I talked back to
>>> you earlier this year in #macdev, so just quit it already, please!
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