On 1/24/2025 15:32, Nightfox wrote:

Re: complaint about support
By: MRO to all on Sat Jan 25 2025 03:13 am

MR> I don't know what you guys did to this guy but he's posting on the shitty
MR> bbs reddit ALL OVER complaining about you "elite synchronet gurus" who
MR> refused to help him and tell him to "read the wiki"

I followed that subreddit and I've seen mmore helpful answers than on
the entire fidonet.

MR> how dare you. how dare you.
MR> I said reading the wiki and learning by doing is a good way to do
MR> things... guess what i got! a downvote! :{

MR> you guys need to shape up or you're going to chase away good people!

MR> I blocked him and deleted my helpful comments.

That kind of childish ain't it?

ehh.. I happened to see that, and saw you also mention to him something about if you can't read the wiki/documentation and learn from it, then maybe BBSing isn't a hobby for him, and if someone like you can set up and run BBS then anyone can.

And I guess along the lines he said, "if you know the solution wouldn't
it be better to share a link or help?"

Nightfox

I was trying to setup a sync test system but after comments like those I stopped asking and started a chatgpt project and asking it question
which it won't sigh or shrug, it's a matter of perspective, just my
humble opinion as someone that returned after two decades and is trying
to get people to join to to scare them with bad attitude, my two cents.

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Re: Re: complaint about support
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mickey on Sun Jan 26 2025 09:12 am

Mickey wrote to Nightfox <=-

I can be added to THAT list as well. I find a search for an issue on Google will stand a good chance of getting you at least a couple fixes. Thank goodness for that one. ____________

I wish the search function was more effective in Synchronet - there have been times I've looked for a fix I read in a message on my BBS and found
it on someone else's board in a web search. :(

if you're talking about the actual msg base search function ,it's pretty decent. it doesn't get any false hits. what else can you ask for?
i guess he could add in text+text1+text2
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Re: Re: complaint about support
By: David Gonzalez to All on Sun Jan 26 2025 01:01 pm

MR> you guys need to shape up or you're going to chase away good

people!

MR> I blocked him and deleted my helpful comments.

That kind of childish ain't it?

nah he just kept downvoting them. he's an idiot.

And I guess along the lines he said, "if you know the solution wouldn't
it be better to share a link or help?"

he didnt. share what link? the howto's and the screenshots and everything
are on the synchronet wiki. now he's trying mystic and he's SOL.

I was trying to setup a sync test system but after comments like those I stopped asking and started a chatgpt project and asking it question
which it won't sigh or shrug, it's a matter of perspective, just my
humble opinion as someone that returned after two decades and is trying
to get people to join to to scare them with bad attitude, my two cents.

if someone takes it as an insult when you say you should check out the documentation and wants to be handheld and wants you to give him a reach around and tickle his balls to climax, bbsing isn't for him.

furthermore i know synchronet has the largest support system out of all the bbs softwares.

he's just some idiot who wants to run dialup mystic to launch renegade via telnet and also have ftn and everything. but he won't touch documentation.

If he was ignored eventually now i know why. he's a child.

And you weren't doing a great job in your quest for suppor either. you didn't provide correct information or much of any information.

you just can't go out and say things aren't working and don't say anything else and expect that to be helpful. you have to provide information and screenshots so people can see what you did wrong.

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Re: Re: complaint about support
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mickey on Sun Jan 26 2025 09:12:18

Mickey wrote to Nightfox <=-

Google will stand a good chance of getting you at least a couple fixes.
Thank goodness for that one. ____________

I wish the search function was more effective in Synchronet - there have been times I've looked for a fix I read in a message on my BBS and found it on someone else's board in a web search. :(

It's a community and I suppose that's the way it works. You'd be surprised (maybe not) how AI solves tech problems sometimes.
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Mickey - CORSys Synchro
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Re: Re: complaint about support
By: David Gonzalez to All on Sun Jan 26 2025 13:01:18

I was trying to setup a sync test system but after comments like those I stopped asking and started a chatgpt project and asking it question which it won't sigh or shrug, it's a matter of perspective, just my humble opinion as someone that returned after two decades and is trying to get people to join to to scare them with bad attitude, my two cents.

<shrug> <sigh> :-) <grin>
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Mickey - CORSys Synchro
centralontarioremote.net:12500

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Re: Re: complaint about support
By: Mickey to David Gonzalez on Sun Jan 26 2025 07:16 pm

Re: Re: complaint about support
By: David Gonzalez to All on Sun Jan 26 2025 13:01:18

I was trying to setup a sync test system but after comments like those I stopped asking and started a chatgpt project and asking it question which it won't sigh or shrug, it's a matter of perspective, just my humble opinion as someone that returned after two decades and is trying to get people to join to to scare them with bad attitude, my two cents.

<shrug> <sigh> :-) <grin>
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I remember what david's problem was.
He had problems and people told him how to fix them. One of those was nick boel.

David refused to correct the problems. then complained about the people helping him. the people gave him correct information.

some people you just can't help.
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I was trying to setup a sync test system but after comments like those I stopped asking and started a chatgpt project and asking it question
which it won't sigh or shrug, it's a matter of perspective, just my
humble opinion as someone that returned after two decades and is trying
to get people to join to to scare them with bad attitude, my two cents.

My experience with Synchronet is that if you are able to describe your
issue and provide information about what you are attempting, you will
likely find someone willing to give you some good info. Yes, that info
might very well be a link to a wiki page, but if that link proves helpful I
am glad they shared it.

I don't expect them to set it up for me. With all the features, I do
expect there will be some things that will frustrate me, but that is not
the fault of the people trying to help.

I also do realize that, like on the internet, there will be some not so
helpful responses and just try to ignore those.


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Re: Re: complaint about suppo
By: Dumas Walker to DAVID GONZALEZ on Mon Jan 27 2025 09:46 am

My experience with Synchronet is that if you are able to describe your
issue and provide information about what you are attempting, you will
likely find someone willing to give you some good info. Yes, that info might very well be a link to a wiki page, but if that link proves helpful I am glad they shared it.

I don't expect them to set it up for me. With all the features, I do
expect there will be some things that will frustrate me, but that is not
the fault of the people trying to help.

I also do realize that, like on the internet, there will be some not so helpful responses and just try to ignore those.

but this guy and the person i mentioned received the correct FREE support and still ignored it and acted out.

in the synchronet community you will get help with your issue; there's the best documentation for a bbs software, and it's been that way for over a decade.

If someone is outraged by being encouraged to read, they need to fuck off.
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Re: Re: complaint about support
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mickey on Mon Jan 27 2025 08:12 am

surprised (maybe not) how AI solves tech problems sometimes. ____________

It's not AI, it's someone else's message bases indexed by Google and available online instead of looking at my own local message bases.

it's true, maybe our search needs to be expanded. recently i was able to find old posts where i asked for help with an issue. it was more difficult using the synchronet text search commands. it wasn't THAT difficult. perhaps the search feature needs to be more robust.
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