bezzy wrote:OMG This just sad. I really think you guys are out to lunch when you say people are trying to ruin MOTU's reputation. Clearly people have had many issues with DP. The Mac is a system that just works, you guys know it runs on UNIX, Apple controls all the hardware that goes into the machine. Seriously how can one Apple computer differ from another of the same type. If DP ran on windows machines I could see the point of the its your machines problem.
So maybe some people are having problems and it is the software and not computer. Sure many people use DP very successfully but for me it has been to glitchy with way to many hangs, you know the spinning beach ball.
Anyway on my Intel Mac every other piece of software I use seems to work quite well, of course all software has some bugs, but when I use DP my computer it has a problem????
Photoshop works,Illustrator works,Cubase works,Logic works and every other software I have used generally works quite well, my plugins all work as well.
Oh wait I forgot about religion entering into the equation.
MOTU rocks, DP is the best, it is very stable, fast and works with every plugin I throw at it.
I guess I am banned or deleted for telling the truth.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, and just assume that you're not trolling. Having made that assumption, I can only conclude that you really don't know what we're talking about. We're not talking about people who come here talking about problems with DP -- we complain ourselves, often and loudly, when things go wrong, and we're very tolerant of others' complaints,
when they're well founded and the intent is not malicious.
Maybe you haven't experienced the waves of bashers who come through now and then -- usually around the time of a new MOTU release. Their intent is to make everyone scared to install the new upgrade. They introduce enough chaos into the system to accomplish exactly that. I just went through an email exchange with a good friend who was scared -- literally afraid -- to install Snow Leopard. He asked me question after question, because he was afraid of losing his system to software incompatibilities. I talked him through it, and after about three days of this he's finally happily running DP6.02 in Snow Leopard. Why was he afraid? Well, personal experience gives him enough bad memories to lend credence to the trolls when they come through saying "don't install it! Everything's busted! Wait until the reports come in!"
Of course, that's not bad advice: wait until the reports come in. The trouble is that nearly everyone who has posted on Snow Leopard had written glowing reports of how it improved everything, and yet it still took only a couple of naysayers to make my friend afraid to install it. Now, he's a pretty sophisticated user. What about the casual users who "just don't want any trouble?"
We're not talking about legitimate gripes! We're talking about trolling. Bashing. Coming through here with an agenda. On the other hand, people who come in frustrated and yelling, but wanting help? We're MORE than happy to help them. They don't get their posts deleted, or reprimanded, or anything of a kind.
There's a huge difference, and it's pretty easy to tell the two different types apart. Maybe once in a while someone goes overboard and berates a legitimate user who is just upset. Then again, maybe legitimate users sometimes are upset enough to go overboard and threaten to leave forever, DP sucks, and all that stuff. Well, it happens. Once we get it all sorted out, I think everyone understands each other. But really, those aren't the people we're after. (though everyone really ought to TRY to control their emotions when posting publicly about the problems they are having. It's hard enough to deal with the problems to find a solution. Having to play counselor to the user himself is really unnecessary, and asking a lot of us. But we've done a lot of that, too.
Please, don't turn what we're saying into something else. You've exaggerated it and applied it to everyone. It only applies to those whose main interest is slander, rumors, piracy, or just trolling to get everyone upset.
Which I'm assuming you're not doing.
Shooshie
