Insanity Redefined
What am I doing here?
Stuck between 2 browsers (Opera and Mozilla) and 2 CMS Systems (WordPress and Blog:CMS). I was just here trying to accomplish something on the personal front. Maintain a Blog. But well, it's no longer simple. You have to choose tools, and you have maintain some standards. And well, if you happen to like 1 particular brand of browser and the community and developers like the other one; you are labeled a troll on the IRC Channel!
I just tried to shift from WP to Blog:CMS. Found it a bit complex for my usual WPish taste. Asked little too many questions, had some sarcasm for the forum admin, and he labeled me a helpless, too much complaining and inconsiderate troll. Maybe considering I feature pretty well on WP forums, he thought I was just trolling around using Blog:CMS to later degrade him on WP forums to add to my reputation or something. So, after 20 posts of very useful discussions, he just lost his temper... Cannot really blame him. He openly labels WP as a piece of crap (does not concern me) so perhaps, I was like a MT fan boy on WP forums with little intention of trying something new and fresh...
But well, I decided to give this tool a try. Cannot really blame the software just because the developer thinks he is doing us a favor making this tool and providing it to me for free! But without any help from the support forums, I doubt it I can make any progress on the learning curve.
So, being labeled a troll. Two times in a single day. When it was not intended to be anywhere. What the hell am I trying to do here?
1 Great thing about this tool is that IT MAKES ME WRITE GOOD XHTML!
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. Cannot really blame the software just because the developer thinks he is doing us a favor making this tool and providing it to me for free!
yes, I am making you a big favor when I provide about 1.000 hours of my top work for free to you...
If you answer my post if a forum, that you are too lazy to read docs, then... well, anybody can make his own judgment..
Thank you :)
reply to this comment Saturday, 14.08.04, 21:17:41PS: nobody else is so fuck.ng bold like you, lazy to read DOCUMENTATION, but rather ask 20 questions in a forum and scream..
http://www.google.com/search?q=powered+by+BLOG:CMS...
reply to this comment- this comment inspired Sushubh — #3
Saturday, 14.08.04, 21:20:06inspired by Radek Hulan — #2 yes, I am making you a big favor when I provide about 1.000 hours of my top work for free to you...
With this particular statement, you nullified the entire motive of Open Source software. Open Source software was supposed to be about cooperation and contribution. OK, I am not paying you for using a product that YOU CHOSE to give me for free. But I can (or could have) help by being an active member of the forum helping other users who came there. But well, no... You have other plans... Your plans are to humiliate new users coming to your domain by reminding them again and again of the big favor that you are doing them by giving this software for free.
Did Linus Torvald work on Linux to someday humiliate a Linux user like me by telling me, I did a great favor to you! Now thank me for it.
Are sourceforge and all the open source initiatives based of favors?
If all developers start to think and behave like you, no one would love Open Source like the way they currently do. Maybe, now I know why you like Opera. You cannot stand people doing us a big favor by spending 1000 hrs of their daily life giving us excellent free products as Firefox and Thunderbird.
I believe, if you were one of the developers of Firefox, you had added this statement to the Firefox's splash screen.
We are doing you a big favor by making this software. Give me money for support because I don't like people who come to an open forum asking for help. And yeah I LOVE TO WRITE IN CAPITAL LETTERS.
OK. I did not read the entire 100KBs of the help document because it is not Windows XP that I need a manual to get started. It’s a Blog for god sake. Maybe if you can get the help documents in easy to read searchable documents and pointed me to individual pages... it would have helped me a lot. But reading through 100 KBs of help files to know why the fucking Blog tool does not even install on my server really does not makes this Blog a tool that can be installed in 3 minutes.
And, yeah commenting on a personal Blog, using capital letters and the f word is a polite way to reply to a genuine query on a Blog tool that certainly was (and is) not performing as it was supposed to be from the claims made on the homepage.
And yeah the Google query that you so love to give me again and again and again. Of the first 10 results, only 4 seem to be Blog:CMS Blog. Rests are the websites on the tool or other people's opinion about it. Ironically 2 of the top 10 results are WP Blogs.
reply to this comment- this comment inspired Radek Hulan — #4
Saturday, 14.08.04, 21:39:20inspired by Sushubh — #3 are you a teenager? ;) lazy one? lazy to read documentation, but rather ask in a forum everytime?
I am not ;)
reply to this comment- this comment inspired Sushubh — #5
Saturday, 14.08.04, 22:03:38inspired by Radek Hulan — #4 Makes Blogging Fun Again!
Reading long documents to just find out about 1 teeny tiny detail that could have been apparent from a citation does not appears to me as fun.
I just expect a software to work fine out of the box. Most of the issues I had from the 20 questions were due to lack of proper implimentation in teh installation file. It is pretty clear that most people would like to switch to fancy URIs, so what made the developer make all the images in the default template relative, is something hard to understand.
I found you atleast 3 issues inside the 1st hour of installation. How lazy I am finding out issues in the blog tool for you. Though you won't label them as bug because they don't meet the Blog:CMS standards.
Yeah, I did not made any contribution at all. :(
What I wanted was to Blog. Not read manuals to get to know the system first. You made the system, so you know it inside out. I am coming from 10 months of usage of WP. I expect certain things to work in a certain way. And if they don't I need help. I did not find a IRC Channel for quick help, so I turned to the forums. I certainly did not expect you to answer all my questions. But looking at the activity that the BLOG:CMS forum has, it looks like you are the only contributor any raised questions.
Compare that to WP and you will know why LinuxJournal decides to put it on its frontcover. Maybe they found out that your Open Source initiatives are not compliant to those of Linux lovers.
And trust me. 2000+ posts on both Opera and WP forums, I know... New guys won't read a Blog:CMS bible to get it working. They search in forums for questions. And most of my questiions would help a lot of people who decides to use Blog:CMS.
I would still try to give this tool a go. Unless ofcourse, you still mind me asking any questions in Blog:CMS forum that not exactly very smart.
Considering the number of posts on the forums and the number of Blog:CMS blogs online. I can only believe that people online are really smarter than me. That they don't face the issues I faced.
I had end with a thank you for getting a bit polite again!
reply to this comment Saturday, 14.08.04, 22:32:23ehh, your ONLY issue was running with PHP short_open_tags OFF, nobody else, from thousands of BLOG:CMS installs, was running that, I fixed that issue within 1 hour after being found, and you didn't even said thank you (yes, I admit, this was a bug, EVERY single software has bugs)
except this little issue, which occured ONLY on your case, BLOG:CMS works right out-of-the-box, creates static XHTML pages, and has about 50x more functionality than WP..
reply to this comment- this comment inspired Sushubh — #7
Saturday, 14.08.04, 22:52:41inspired by Radek Hulan — #6
CSS Destroy on comment RSS file
Images had relative URIs
Even the links for stats and login pages are relative URIs
I still do not remain logged in. The 1 month cookie setting is enabled by default. And there is no firewall issues on my system. WP keeps me logged in (i never had to login again to my old blog). GMail keeps me logged in, so does Neowin, Opera forums, WP Forums all keeps me logged in. You just do not believe there is a distant possibility that it might not be perfect.
And then there was this user who commented about the weird file nomenclature of file names (some are capital!) and table names (again some tables are capitals)
No matter how hard I tried, the installer could not make a database for me.
Maybe its all because I expected a smiling smily to be a symbol of coolness and thanks. But well Egos...
People just cannot expect the fact that the favor they are doing to people like us are not being returned properly.
Just admit that you just cannot accept constructive criticism. And would do anything to get that ego of urs aroused.
I really dont see any more reasons to carry forward this discussions. In a day or 2... I would turn this page into statics along with that post of mine you deleted from the forum for no apparent reason. and post it on an open accessible platform for people to judge which one of us makes more sense.
reply to this comment Saturday, 14.08.04, 23:16:00