Negativity

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Friday 05 January 2007 14:35, Jared wrote:

> p.s. while we're on the subject of character attacks, is there
> anything you *don't* disparage? 	

My negative average tone has been noticed before, and I apologize if it looks 
that way.

In part, it's because the two main things I use the list for are to alert 
other people to problems I've encountered, and to alert others to them.

Unfortunately, it's true that you get far less response to "how do I make this 
work?" than you do to "this is a piece of crap, it doesn't even do foo!".  
The former won't elicit any replies, even if people know, while the latter 
will elicit indignant rage from a happy user, who will slam you down by 
showing you exactly how it's supposed to be done.  

As Montgomery would say, Eexcelent.


Oh, I also tend toward a rather bitter, sarcastic humor, which doesn't help.