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Hello there! I am writing this letter to inform you of somethings and warn you about my concerns. I have asked Ian not to delete this post or allow it to be deleted. I know a lot of you already follow what I am going to tell you. I thank you for that. For the others, I believe it is time for you to shape up.
As I am tired of many repeat, silly, common-sense, and just plain s tupid posts here on Planet Source Code, I believe you are to. Some people try to post quality work on this wonderful site, but others simply destroy the beauty of it by posting pure garbage. Most of the garbage is "decorated" by using "best code ever". Clearly this is a lie. Usally in Visual Basic its just an End statement, a Kill statement, a message box, or just something that has no code. Also, some of the garbage on Planet Source Code is just people asking questions. There is a place for that, ether in the fourms or in the code itself. Why don't those people ask elsewhere? In addition, I have seen people uploading zip files that don't have code. I have seen this in game engines, they just provide a link to the source on their own site. Don't waste space with that. Also, I have seen a lot of incomplete submissions. I cannot tell you how many submissions I have downloaded that are incomplete. I just downloaded one today that did not have the control. I figured he tried to upload the OCX, but he forgot to read "Planet Source Code does not accept: ... Compiled .Exe's, .Dll's, .Ocx's (these are automatically deleted from submissions to prevent viruses. If you MUST upload one of these, email webmaster@planet-source-code.com with an explanation why.)". Ha!
Some people for get to give all the files. I have seen submissions without the solutions, project files, the ResX files, the control files, and the form files. And sometimes the project path is declared absolutly, not reltivily. So sometimes in order for a project to work, I have to load every stinking file. This is only the begining.
Now that is not even all the serious of my letter. I have seen people being stalked by people who are just plain mean by voting low on all their work. I have seen people hate people's project names. This is serious folks.
I hope you all read this letter and take heart to it. It is important that we do our best and keep Planet Source Code clean!
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See Voting Log | | | | Other User Comments | 9/21/2002 8:31:32 PM:David McCloskey
You have a very good point.
| 9/21/2002 8:43:29 PM:Josh Nixon
Look im all for what you are trying to
say except about exe's. Although i live
up to what they say about exe's
beinging included I would like to add
mine with code. Some application need
exe's, like a shell. Im making a shel
it demands my own exe's to run inside
of it. Ohter then that I am very pissed
off about how people abouse there
prilvages on PSC. Yes you know who you
are stop submitting trsh just so you
can see your name scrolling on the
BAR!!!
| 9/22/2002 12:35:08 AM:Andrew Nielsen
I have to agree with what you're trying
to say, but... don't be a hypocrite...
This is just what you're talking
about. You could have asked Ian to
post this on the site somewhere, rather
than as you did.
You have a very
valid point, but I have never come
across anything that is what you
describe, so I can not say anything,
and I won't.
| 9/22/2002 4:22:53 AM:
Thats a good point about missing files
and fake ones. the only thing is that i
think you should be aloud to put
exe/com/etc.. files because i sometimes
have problems compiling, but i want to
know what it looks like so that the
code makes sense to me :)
but its true
that you hould be wary of viruses
then..
oh, nice post, its good that
ppl are speaking out :P
| 9/22/2002 12:06:17 PM:(Diego)
I agree, I think that it's correct.
About the exe, etc. we don't need to
upload this kind of files, besides if
we permit this kind of submission the
site will be unsecure due the person
that will publish viruses.
| 9/22/2002 5:58:50 PM:Frenzied-Panda
Very good point, I hate people
uploading code that cant compile or
nearly finish.
| 9/26/2002 9:58:15 AM:siliKon
Isn't it a tad contradictory to you
moaning about junk then posting this
piece of <b>junk</b> in every single
category. If you want to moan about the
stuff you consider to be junk on this
site, do it on your own site. Don't
take up valuable space for valid
tutorials on this site. If you consider
this site to contain too much
<b>junk</b> then i advise you take a
look at your own.
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