Totally agree with you, James. People used to say "
Sticks and Stones can break my bones, but little words can't hurt me." That was before the Internet. Now, words are weapons of mass destruction, and as soon as some jerk learns that he holds this incredible power in his hands, he can't wait to go use it. And search engines are precisely where it shows up. That's why it's important to change damaging thread names to "(Solved)"
It would be different if everyone crashed all the time. Just for reference, I'm posting my crash log and hang log, which shows very little trouble since 2008:
One can read the dates and see what's up. Some of my sudden quits in DP6 in Leopard don't show up on there, but there weren't that many. There've been zero since Snow Leopard, and I've used it heavily since then, sometimes 36 hours at a time.
Now, maybe there's some feature I'm not using that will still cause it to crash. I don't know. But I've still gotten an incredible amount of work done in a short week or so, and if DP truly sucked, that wouldn't be possible, would it? That's what irritates me; one person gets some kind of major problem, but instead of coming here and trying to solve it, he comes here and tries to take down MOTU. If it truly doesn't work, then where are my crashes and hangs? That's over a year's worth right there in the picture, and that was before Snow Leopard.
When people come in here and proceed to trash DP loudly and without concern for rational discussion, they forfeit their rights to display their opinions here, as far as I'm concerned. It causes real damage to all of us. This isn't a matter of censoring discussion. It's a matter of stopping an angry person hell-bent on destroying what belongs to all of us. In a world where information is a powerful weapon, censorship has to be further defined. If you can build a case for why DP sucks, and you show it to be true, then hey, I'm with you. But you can't do that as long as people like me can display proof that it does not. (the above is just a part of the proof. The other part would be the many recordings I and others have made) And that means that further aggressive behavior has gone beyond discussion and opinion since the aggressor knows that what he is saying is not true, and moved toward slander and libel, which are NOT covered by the 1st Amendment of the Constitution, but strictly forbidden by US law.
Shoosh
