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Not every suggestion made in the forum or on the devel list is good. While no one deserves to be belittled, a fair share of suggestions deserve to be ignored (unless you feel you are entitled to 30 minutes time from, say, a 3d rendering specialist who explains to you in detail why your idea really doesn't work in non-technical terms - I don't). There are many questions asked where the answer can be found in the Wiki with a short search. There are suggestions being made which even on first glance are impossible in practice. It's not the developer's job to deal with these things - it's your job as a forum user to do so. And not every rejection needs to be taken as personal grievance carried around for the next years - sometimes one just has to allow for the possibility that one has been wrong. | Not every suggestion made in the forum or on the devel list is good. While no one deserves to be belittled, a fair share of suggestions deserve to be ignored (unless you feel you are entitled to 30 minutes time from, say, a 3d rendering specialist who explains to you in detail why your idea really doesn't work in non-technical terms - I don't). There are many questions asked where the answer can be found in the Wiki with a short search. There are suggestions being made which even on first glance are impossible in practice. It's not the developer's job to deal with these things - it's your job as a forum user to do so. And not every rejection needs to be taken as personal grievance carried around for the next years - sometimes one just has to allow for the possibility that one has been wrong. | ||
= Contributors vs. users = | |||
We have here two groups of persons (with blurry boundaries): The first group takes something for free, which is a Flightsim which you download from servers for which someone probably pays real money. The second group gives something, which is their time to create the simulation. | |||
You'd expect in the real world that if I give you something for free, that this earns me your gratitude. But this is the internet - so instead of gratitude, you somehow assume that in addition to giving you something, I am also expected to care about what you want, and it disturbs you that I don't really care for people who take for free and ask for more, but that I care for those who take and are prepared to give in return. | |||
On the other hand, a 'user' in your concept of course is supposed to be entitled to not only acquire Flightgear, but also get support in the forum and should also have a voice ( in what is done for the project (by others), and for this he's expected to do what in return? Nothing. | |||
If it disturbs you that I don't share this sentiment, then so be it, but let me be very clear: I have every sympathy for people who come here and offer to return some (whatever small) contribution back for getting Flightgear. I get angry when I see their contributions rejected for opaque reasons, when I see disparaging comments made that this is 'merely modelling' or 'just Nasal', when I see someone being discouraged from honestly trying to contribute. I have also sympathy for people who take Flightgear, enjoy using it but don't want to contribute and still ask politely for some help in the Forum. | |||
I just have no sympathy for people who take, are not prepared to do any work, but feel entitled to say how others should do their job and issue demands for features, aircraft, documentation, whatever. You may call that elitism, I call that my sense of fairness. | |||
= Some comments on elitism = | = Some comments on elitism = | ||