- Nov 20, 2019
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You know, as a developer, you can't simply ignore people asking dumb questions, raging over delays or trying to be smartasses by trying to make you look bad. Because some people only do this in rare occassions, and most times they are fine and decent human beings who actually have a helpful input or a spot-on feedback.
But I found a great way in this forum to identify people being hostile for the sake of being hostile, from others that just had a bad day. It is simple and bulletproof.
This is how you do it:
If you find a person that in at least 2 or 3 seperate ocassions post something unnecesary, dumb or despective in your thread... and you don't know if you should aknowledge them or ignore them. Just go to their profile, quickly check their "posting" tab, and if you find that their last 10 comments were "delay whinnings", or simply trash posts against a developer and/or another user.... you WILL KNOW that interacting with that person will only result in more trash talk from them.
It only take a couple minutes, and you will be saving yourself hours of disgust.
So, when you are in doubt of answering to someone that you don't know if he is just temporarily upset or just a full-time asshole, use this method and then act accordingly.
#avoidtheasshole
(This was a public service announcement brought to you by Dr. Bones).
You're post in a nutshell:
"People who criticize devs that are constantly delaying there projects are assholes".
What a killer argument, Stalin would be proud of you...