Duh newsgroup

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Puppy Breath

How about a new newsgroup where you put all the messages from newbies who
keep ranting about the obvious, like "it's different from what I was using
before" and "it's a big, bloated and slow (like a beta)". Maybe title it the
"Duh now" newsgroup or something. That way we don't have to manually mark
them as Not Useful and Ignore in the other groups.
 
Splash down some mouthwash Puppy breath, before you dare call computer
veterans "newbees"
 
I wasn't talking about veterans. I was talking about newbies who always come
into these groups and state the obvious.
 
And maybe put any message with uppercase opinions about about HOW MUCH THEY
LOVE/HATE some irrelevant product in there too.

(Now I'm ranting about rants. Must be getting cranky in my old age).
 
It's true that many newbies, who may also be PC experts, will have common
initial feelings about Vista. However just seeing how common the negative
response may be can be useful in itself.

It's aklso the case that they are not close to the forest as they may
actually see trees the Vista veterans may miss.

This is a general Vista forum, and that's probably where such messages
belong. It might make sense to create a new forum for more expert
discussion, but that's a different matter.

Ed
 
It's just all so boringly predictable. People always like what they already
know. Duh, there's nothing new to learn, and the product (probably) works.



It's too bad there isn't a way to create filters or message rules for
newsgroup message bodies. Then jaded old cranky guys like me could just
delete or hide messages that contain words/phrases like:



love

hate

slow

bloated

sucks

sux

!!

??

PLEASE

When is



But getting away from trite posts, I demo'ed Vista to my two teenage kids.
Their reaction was unanimous - "Put that on my computer". I didn't, but
they want me to.
 
put it on my computer !!!


Puppy Breath said:
It's just all so boringly predictable. People always like what they
already know. Duh, there's nothing new to learn, and the product
(probably) works.



It's too bad there isn't a way to create filters or message rules for
newsgroup message bodies. Then jaded old cranky guys like me could just
delete or hide messages that contain words/phrases like:



love

hate

slow

bloated

sucks

sux

!!

??

PLEASE

When is



But getting away from trite posts, I demo'ed Vista to my two teenage kids.
Their reaction was unanimous - "Put that on my computer". I didn't, but
they want me to.
Click to expand...
 
Just curious Puppy Breath - assuming we all started as"newbies" - how did
you get from being a "newbie" to a "jaded old cranky"?
 
Time and experience.


AJR said:
Just curious Puppy Breath - assuming we all started as"newbies" - how did
you get from being a "newbie" to a "jaded old cranky"?
Click to expand...
 
Of course it's not true in a general sense. But it is true if you just want
to keep doing the same things you've been doing, in the same way you have
been doing them all along. So it's true in that context.
 
OK. But it seems like a bit of a non-seq to the concept of resistance to
change based on having to re-learn something you already know how to do.
 
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