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Bad article, worse comments.
by Anon on Tuesday 08/Jul/2003, @17:41
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When reading the article, I was not at all impressed with the quality of writing, and upon getting to the comments, I became even more annoyed. As soon as a bunch of geeks see that a girl is interacting with them at all, they immediatley herald it as the greatest thing to ever happen and in the same instant completley shut down any reasoning they have.
This article is very badly written: she is repetitive, doesn't offer nearly the amount of substance one would expect from such a long article, and makes her self out to not understand what's going on. "Apparently that is what the Checksum file is for": she could have at least researched checksumming and given a quick overview of what it actually does; after all, she is complaining that the FAQ glosses over the issue.
Folks, get the blood back to the correct hemisphere of the body, and start using your brain. After reading the 85 million comments from desperate, anti-social geeks who wanted nothing more than to see a picture of the author, I went and quickly read her other articles, and much to my non-surprise, they're quite similar.
Don't applaud someone simply because they're of the of opposite sex, even in such a female-challenged community. When you do, you immediatley label yourself as nothing more the stero-typical (geek|nerd|dweeb).
And stop letting "Savanna" write articles, it's bringing down the quality of the entire site! |
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Re: Bad article, worse comments.
by anon on Tuesday 08/Jul/2003, @19:44
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Go away troll. You can't even spell, yet you think you are high and mighty enough to criticize a valued contributor to the community. Not everyone is a geek expert like you, accept it. She told you more than once yet somehow the point didn't get through to you?
So do your research on how to properly spell "immediatley" and "completley" then come back. Also, inform yourself on what a hemisphere is. Hint: It is "sphere" prefixed with "hemi". It is certainly not how you describe those parts of the body.
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Re: Bad article, worse comments.
by Spock (a poor mortal) on Tuesday 08/Jul/2003, @19:52
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If you are more intelligent than all of us, why didn't you write the article?
Please be generous with us, and show us the light...
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Re: Bad article, worse comments.
by Flip on Tuesday 23/Sep/2003, @08:33
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I'm a geek and proud of it.
Her articles are more directed to the less geek audience. I know what you're criticizing because I see it myself, but keep in mind the audience. She's showing people who are curious about Linux and KDE yet still new at it, what this wonderful OS can do. You're the one who qualifies as a dweeb in this case if you fail to see that. I couldn't care less if she was a man who had 3 sex changes so now resides in the grey area between male and female. What matters is that her articles are well written when it comes to teaching those who are new to KDE about the neat things it can do, without scaring people away with the technical jargon geeks like me are so fond of. Looking forward to seeing some more constructive criticism instead of just random people bashing.
PS: some might have realized this whole paragraphe only states one point 2-3 times over. This was intentional, with goal of getting it to sink in.
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