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 23:23:17 -0400
I should also mention that the alternative on FreeNode for the iPhone
development instead of #iphonedev is #iphone. My recommendation is to
go there and to #macosxdev instead of #macdev if you want actual
questions answered.
I'm saying this from experience. :)
GC
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Gregory Casamento
<email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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