Personally the word "challenge" will always turn me off immediately.
Thanks for sharing such personal information regarding yourself.
I guess I was under the misconception that most men liked competition and challenges. I appreciate your honesty in helping me correct this misconception.
Why turn programming into a game show? It reminds me of the TV Food Network,
which was nice back when it was mostly about cooking rather than, "and the
winner is..."
While both programming and cooking can be fun, I fail to understand where you see any other similarities with game shows. Perhaps you could explain to me, what the common factor is?
These things could be presented as collaborative work. IOW, it's not a
competition, but rather a joint effort aimed at sharing knowledge. Which I
think is what this place is about. Right, Mark?
Speaking of semantics…
Mark,
The downside of backing off from what you think is right, is it tends to lend
support to those who accused you.
Certainly not by anyone that knows him and is a part of the community. This seems a little like the thief accusing the homeowner for not having what he would like to steal.
And BTW, what's wrong with using this forum as a way of getting your work done?
Who said that's not allowed? Or you shouldn't do that?
I would believe that if you consistently used others work to get your work done (i.e. profited financially) this would classify as unethical.
While there is nothing wrong with generating new ideas and getting people to think creatively, and/or using snippets of code that others freely give, taking code for financial gain would just be wrong!
The more I read here, the more I don't understand.
What I want is an open ended forum where ideas flow freely without artificial constraints.
A "challenge" is an artifact by definition IMO.
Maybe you want to try:
Autodesk forums -
an open ended forum where ideas flow freely without artificial constraints. Nope
AUGI -
an open ended forum where ideas flow freely without artificial constraints. Nope
Or your own forum- an open ended forum where (your own) ideas flow freely without artificial constraints.
It's not a matter of semantics given I saw a message from Luis recently which said something like, "someone should judge the entries and declare a winner."
Ya'll may choose to distance yourselves from this nonsense. So be it.
All I'm interested in is an end to it.
Please know I'm not flaming here or accusing anyone of anything. I just think we could do better than what we've done.
<said with a real Southern accent>Y’all just haven’t a clue about such nonsense…semantics, rubbish!<end real Southern accent>
If you were really interested in ending it you would never have continued in such a “challenging” manner. And yes, I’m sure we could all do better, but remember that
starts with you, the individual, first.