Flame on!

Aug. 1st, 2006 04:47 pm
[identity profile] jahbulon.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] techrecovery
Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] kryten
I made a post here yesterday morning about some problems I'd had with locating the drivers for my graphics card. I'd solved the problem by the time I posted, and posted to vent my frustrations as we all do. That's why the community is here after all. I've now deleted the post after a series of incredibly patronising responses by various people. One person seemed intent on calling me an idiot, a number of people told me where I could find the drivers I'd already tried that didn't work - even after I'd edited the post to say this. And finally there was the guy who posted

"What I do not understand, is why are YOU trying to fix a Company owned machine. Let IT fix it, due to that is what they are paid to do. Unless you are trying to hide the true reason that you are using this machine for, and do not want them to find out."

I'd already deleted the post by the time I read this comment, but I need to respond to it. The reason I was repairing the PC, you patronising bastard, is that IT IS MY JOB - rather like everyone else here. You only have to look at my previous posts here, or my userinfo in order to deduce that.

I've always found this to be a fun community, and I've often posted here to vent my frustrations. I don't know if there was something in the air yesterday, but I really feel that a couple of you (particularly this last guy, who I won't name) were overly harsh. I'll certainly think twice before posting here again.

Comments disabled because I'm really not up to a repeat performance.

Date: 2006-08-01 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jcaswell.livejournal.com
The thing is, I disabled comments for - I feel - a good reason. I stand by that reason. I agree with others, it wasn't necessarily your place to repost it and go against what I wanted - particularly as I'd changed my mind completely and deleted the post soon after originally posting it. But what I wanted and what I got are clearly different things in this case, there's little point remaining pissed off with you over it.

I didn't make the decision to disable comments lightly, I knew it'd look a bit like I was throwing my toys out of my pram. But - at the time - it seemed like the right thing to do in order to prevent me slipping even further into this depression (which is in no way connected to anything in this community). With hindsight, posting the entry initially wasn't one of my better ideas, nor was deleting the one from yesterday. I'd have been better off just letting it ride, and waiting for things to die down. Unfortunately, my brain wouldn't let me do that this morning. Maybe next time.

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