Fairly offensive message

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Richmond.


He could be a valuable contributor, since some of his points are quite valid. It may be that the promotion of LiveCode needs a more professional effort and branding, analogous to the topic of the flame war that can be read in the forum, which was about whether LC is a product that lives up to its hype.



If you read Anthony's original post, you will find I am mixed up in it, erm, pretty heavily. I still do not understand if he is trying to galvanize the community, or is just a malcontent. I really do think both. But this sort of person could be very useful to us all. I think he really likes LC.



Craig



-----Original Message-----
From: Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:18 am
Subject: Re: Fairly offensive message


On 24/02/14 11:53, John Dixon wrote:
> Richmond...
>
> This chap 'Amthony' has been a 'whinger' from his first post
> http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18735&start=30

Yes, he does bang on in the same way, doesn't he?

> You can't please all the 'Amthony's' all of the time

I don't have any real great urge to please 'amthony'; even if he does 
need have a serious spelling problem . . . LOL

Mind you, come to think of things he may, indeed be called 'Amthony' as 
the standard of his English grammar is fairly awful:
Hey, anyone on the Use-List know of a country where 'Amthony' is a name?

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However, the thing that "got to me" in that posting was this:

"All that and I'd still fork over my money and be an advocate if I saw 
anything more than a utility or less than commercially polished app done 
in livecode."

There are buckets of "commercially polished app"s made with Livecode: 
obviously this chap needs a few shoved in his face.

The fact that they don't seem to be being shoved in the faces of people 
like 'Amthony' is a bit worrying.

Of course "Not only do som of these apps look like they were built by 
kids - Some WERE built by kids." (sic) is plain silly,
as I have kids over here in Bulgaria who have made apps with Livecode; 
and I think that is marvellous, not a negative point
at all. But 'Amthony' obviously suffers from the profoundly erroneous 
illusion that adults are always better than kids. He
should come over here and work with me; I get put on the spot on average 
about twice a week, by kids; God Bless Them.

Richmond.

>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:36:37 +0200
>> From: richmondmathewson at gmail.com
>> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
>> Subject: Fairly offensive message
>>
>> No; Happy Campers; it's not from me!
>>
>> On the Forum there's a fairly offensive message posted by somebody
>> calling themselves 'amthonyblack' here:
>>
>> http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19273
>>
>> You'll have to scroll down a bit.
>>
>> -----------------------
>>
>> Reading it, initially, I felt a bit offended; but, then on further
>> thought I wondered if at least
>> some of it might be true.
>>
>> I mean the bit about hiding our lights under bushels.
>>
>> ----------------------
>>
>> I wonder if RunRev might not be persuaded to have a webpage with links
>> to all our 'clever stuff':
>>
>> it might serve RunRev's interests . . .
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
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