Re: TWGS EPROM v1.8 Archive Available

[Dain Neater <dneater@inebraska.com>]

> Now that is a load of crap!  I've been to delphi a few times, posted
> messages, etc.  Been to the chat rooms.  There are some nice people
> there, lots of developers, but it is a tight click.  I've had some
> really rude things said to me in chat (both on the main screen and in
> private messages) and I've received extremely rude emails in response
> to posts to Delphi.
I guess I could see where people think that it is a tight click, there are
people on there who have know each other for years and years.  It doesn't
matter where you are at, groups of friends form, there is no preventing
that.  As far as rude responses go, I try to not be rude, but anytime you
type you run a high risk of being taken the wrong way.
> 
> 
> I've tried to get help from certain Delphi members (they are THE ONLY
> ones who can help in certain problems I am trying to solve, and they
> know it), and they say they want to help, but never do (IE rare
> software I would like).
> 
You know I try and help every single person that has a problem, if I can.  I
don't know nearly that much.  But I do help some.

Please don't make blanket statements about a group of people, like below.
First of all this Quantum_Cat person doesn't hang out there, at least not
under that said name(I have no idea who it is or do I care).  I go there for
Apple II Stuff not the insipid jokes about homosexuals that you claim are
the only thing that happens there.

> Delphi is where people like Quantum_Cat hang out.  Go pop into a chat
> room some day and listen to all the delphians exchange homosexual jokes
> and call people names (guess who they make fun of).  I've been to
> Delphi a2 chat several times and I have witnessed this (I even cut the
> text from the chat window thinking I may post it here some day so you
> guys can see what Delphi is like)  Try to ask a question in Chat and
> you have to sort through all the crack-smoking-fag jokes to get your
> answer, if the other chat roomers bother to stop laughing at their
> stupid jokes long enough to answer you.
> 
As someone who attends chat regularly on Delphi A2 I can tell you that I
have never seen a single "crack-smoking-fag joke"  In fact I don't think I
have ever even seen any of those three words mentioned.  Somebody have a
grudge.


> Yeah, go to delphi and get away from this, like everybody else does,
> and then have a good old time reading the same old crap, same old
> jokes, and an unfriendly click-y atmosphere.
To me a click-y atmospehere would be a place I would feel unwelcome.  Which
has never happened to me there.  I started using Delphi about two years ago,
and about the only problem that I had was that everyone there seemed to know
each other.




> 
> Yeah, good programmers and developers. That is the only reason to visit
> Delphi.  If you want to get the latest info on software like Spectrum,
> Nifty Spell, etc.  The programmer group is ok too although it is more
> dead than our programmer newsgroup.
> 
> Try to suggest one thing that is not a ritual in their religion, and
> they will chase you away.
Huh???  You must be easy to chase away.

> 
> The super GS thread on Delphi:  "Yeah, right.  It'll never happen"
> (posted by the delphians)
> 
> Anything new, people thinking of making new hardware, etc.  "Yeah
> right, it'll never happen" ""
So what if someone nay says something.  You are going to let that stop you.
There are people who think that it would never happen.  Prove them wrong.
Do it.  I don't pretend to speak for anyone there, but they are individuals
and everyone has a different opinion on the matter.  Some are usually more
vocal than others.



> 
> Have a laugh reading this, Delphi-folk.  I know a few of you still come
> over here once in a while.  But you might need some asprin later,
> because the truth hurts.
Must be why my head isn't hurting, I haven't heard much of that yet.  Just a
bunch of twisted stories.


> 
> It's just like the town I live in.  It is nice, pine trees, old-towne
> main street and all the shops have fake fronts on the roof to make em
> look two story, a horse drawn carriage taxi service will take you where
> you want to go.  Nice to pass through!  Move here and realize there is
> more than meets the eye at a glance.  The town I live in is down right
> nasty, although if any of the readers here ^^passed through^^, I am
> sure they would think I am crazy for thinking so.
> 
> Don't take my word for it, go and hang out on Delphi.  Quantum_Cat
> posts under his real name there, and only tells his stupid jokes and
> calls names in chat, not in the forum where they'd be deleted .
You know I don't know who Quantum_Cat is so I really can't say about that,
Stupid jokes are part of the fun of chat though.  As far as mean jokes
go......I personally don't experience all these hate mongering comments that
you speak of, and I don't think that they have any part of chat(IMHO).

Like I said I don't claim to speak for or make excuses for anyone on Delphi.
They are all responsible for any actions that they make.   I just find that
I have had no problems there, so I go there more often than I use
comp.sys.apple2.

I go to delphi because it is still GS friendly, because there is a healthy
library of nice updates and such,  because 99% of the Posts don't spiral
down into some flame fest(even if the flame wars here are pretty tame now),
because I always get helpful answers(regardless of what Bob has said).  I
think it is an asset to the Apple 2 Community.  Everyone has their own
opinion I guess.

I guess we should be glad that Apple ][ can still invoke passions so
strongly after all these years......

Dain Neater


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