The rules are all those things you learned in kindergarten about dealing with other people.
In case you skipped kindergarten, or maybe just forgot, let me spell it out a little:
No personal attacks or disrespect toward groups of people. Except accordion players. I HATE accordion players. (refer to item 5 below).
Keep all topics on-topic, with the exception of the Off-Topic topic. Wait… What?
Treat everyone with respect. Please. Even if they are wrong.
Politics, religion, racial and sexuality-related arguments are off-topic even in the off-topic area. I don’t care who you are, where you’re from or what you look like. I just want to hear about how you CAD.
Don’t copy/paste content out of the murdered SW forum, or post pdf printed copies. It’s against their terms of use, and we don’t need the hassle. We brought most of the brain power over here, and that’s where most of that content came from anyhow.
[SUGGESTION] Sarcasm can be noted as such: “[sarcasm]Circular references are considered best practice in my office[/sarcasm].” Or: Circular references are considered best practice in my office. (official sarcasm font color is #8000FF). Or: Circular References are considered best practice in my office Remember that sarcasm is hard to convey in writing, and is very often misinterpreted in forums.
[SUGGESTION] Don’t eat the paste. That’s the part I remember from kindergarten. Never thought I’d be able to use that bit of advice professionally, but I guess I was wrong.
Anyway, I don’t like rules so please don’t make me remind you of them. Feel free to talk to me about anything you think should be included or removed from the rules.
Yeah, ok. You see, I was being sarcastic, and it didn’t work in print. The sarcasm thing is obviously NOT a rule. I just wanted to make that a suggestion. I thought that was obvious, but see, I can be wrong too. I’ve used the purple text before and I think it worked, and gives you another level of expression. I for one will use it, but I don’t really expect others to use it, although it’s cool if you do. The thing is that what you think is obvious is not obvious to everyone.
I actually had some of the upper graders tell me to say to the teacher FU - they had some explaining to do, she figured out who said what, that something a 5 or 6 year old just doesn’t come up with on their own, they hear it, they’ll say it… reminisce
Maybe back when you were a kid. Last weekend my daughter was over for dinner and she told us that a class mate of our grandkid had gotten not one, but two girls pregnant…they’re in sixth grade.
They gotta know how to say FU in Kindergarten these days if they are doing it in 6th.
I have one perpetual issue with Rule #3, “Treat everyone with respect. Please. Even if they are wrong,” and that is Perpetual Motion Machines.
We’ve seen this one in the past, and will surely see it again sometime. Is saying, “No. You’re wrong and we don’t care. Go away and take this junk with you.” respectful enough? Is it any better to ignore it and allow it to .. perpetuate? As always, I’m ok with what rules intend as long as I’m clear on it.
This seems to be a recurring topic where some dreamer brings an idea to engineers for it to be eviscerated, slaughtered, roasted (or smoked if you prefer), and served up hot with a delicious side of sarcasm and ridicule. I resisted starting a fake thread as negative example.
Tom G I know what you mean. If Jon Ba***uer were to show up, I’m not sure I could be respectful. One of my personal rules is that there is an exception to every rule, which maybe should have also been added.
mirisj That wouldn’t be Jeff Mirisola of the Tool Shed fame, would it? There goes the neighborhood! Hey, Jeff, it’s been a while! Retired, huh? Damn good to hear from you again. Anyway, glad to see you here. Hope you enjoy it.
Remember that sarcasm is hard to convey in writing, and is very often misinterpreted in forums.
