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 <rutsk...@gmail.com> 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 <a...@me.com> 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" <rutsk...@gmail.com> >> 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! >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >>> >>> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >>> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >>> >>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/atri%40me.com >>> >>> This email sent to a...@me.com >> > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/greg_casamento%40yahoo.com > > This email sent to greg_casame...@yahoo.com > -- Gregory Casamento - GNUstep Lead/Principal Consultant, OLC, Inc. yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell) _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
