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Banned... No good deed goes unpunished

recantha

I can't quite believe this. The Foundation has banned me from the Forum. No warning, no notification, just the ban.

 

I _think_ it's because I warned them about an article I'd read where the problems with delivery from RS weren't being addressed by either the Foundation or by RS themselves... And then daring to explain why I'd posted it on the Forum instead of PMing someone (Liz and Eben are in the States...).

 

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=19273&p=188490

 

I wouldn't mind if I'd been slating the Foundation or RS directly!

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Mike

  • in reply to gdstew

    Maybe it's because most Element 14 customers are engineers and used to buying electronic components and development stuff.

    Some of them also have a professional occupation in designing embedded electronics.

    Others have to deal with quality control and customer support.

    It's normal the way the foundation handles things enerves those people more than others not having a clue.

    Good luck on the other forums.

     

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    > Maybe it's because most Element 14 customers are engineers and used to buying electronic components and development stuff

     

    Funny, I get the opposite impression, at least on the RPi forums.

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    I have been running two RPi for several months now. Around the 8th month kernel bugs killed motion.

    #1 RPi runs constantly with out a problem as it is running on a kernel from the 7th month.

    #2 RPi crashes randomly due to kernel errors on default up to date kernel or a home brew kernel.

     

    The kernel developers seem to be in panic mode and I have seen several patches being released without proper testing.

    Comments in the history show they do not know whether a fix actually does fix the problem. Roll back is a very bad word to developers.

     

    Currently I am the owner of two out of date bricks but at least I can over clock my RPi brick.

    Maybe the leds will blink faster.

     

    The RPi is only as good as the people developing the base resources.

    If these people were competent the code I wrote would already be incorporated into Raspbian.

    This is how open source development works. Somebody adds features.

    Others see improvements that could be made and contribute.

     

    Anything else sees a package stagnate, die and replaced.

     

    Good developers know how to sort out the rubbish from the good and do not address the rubbish.

    In other words, ignore rudeness and address the real issue. A few words last for seconds in my mind.

    100 lines of code can live forever.

     

    The arguments of fanboi's carry no weight at all. Fanboi's are not the people making real contributions as they see no real issues.

    They deserve no response at all other than an acknowledgement that they more often than not tar and feather themselves with little need to encourage them.

     

    For me IRC floats my boat. On IRC I find people like Hexxeh, Gordon (wiringPi) and many others who are very clued up. The help is often real time.

    There are even several Ham radio ops in the channel and quiet times when other things are discussed.

    Thankfully moderation is mostly a matter of politely asking people to behave keeping with the fact children/youth who use the channel.

    Other than that there is no such thing as a concern troll and the word is frown on by at least one irc cannel op.

     

    I do not miss the RPF at all or the miss-information it contains. Most of the real information is actually located on peoples web pages in write ups of their R&D.