Broader musings

Posted by 22111
Jul 30, 2022 at 01:26 PM

A more specific thread title would have been welcome, but whatever: I dare say you’re wrong.

With all due respect, and that’s not ironic, I respect even those who don’t respect me, I have never ever got any suggestion, any impulse from either this forum or then the almost defunct donationcoder forum of any value - I’m very sorry, but that’s the blatant truth. (I have not frequented any other fora, except for some specific software ones, the askSam, UR and MyInfo fora come to mine, and the same observation applies to them, with the technical exception of the AS forum where some German, “Flo”, obviously “Florian”, had awful insight into many things; I deeply regret the demise of askSam, and thus of its forum in its time… but for all the rest, “forget’em”, all’o'em either don’t know much, or then don’t share anything.

(There’s a technical “exception” in the donationcoder forum, “share/shadow…” or somewhat - I currently don’t remember his full name, and I cannot identify him at this time since I don’t have access to donationcoder anymore at this very moment: he’s extremely knowledgeable about technical stuff of all kinds, but as for conceptional matters, I rely on my own thinking, including my thoughts about the failures and errors of third-parties…

On the other hand, I’ve got valuable ideas - and I never then considered them my own, and always gave, have given and give the appropriate credentials - from brilliant individuals’ works… and sometimes even, and that’s more often than not, those brilliant individuals’ ideas just reflect, confirm and validate mine, and then again, I say so, cf. my thread of today, and yes, when you remain honest about the genesis of your ideas, you’ve got some right onto people believing you when you say that some third-party’s idea that you mention (and then follow-up or not (yet)), has also been your own, before reading that third-party’s publication.

Whatever, and let’s face it: On the one hand, this forum is, has become, the “standard” one now for “outlining and similar” things, and then, most “contributions” over here are dispensable, very unfortunately…