[bksvol-discuss] Re: hello i am a whiny sighted person complaining about a problem on a nearly free service that turned out not to have affected anything
- From: "Susan Lumpkin" <slumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:03:04 -0500
People, can we please move on from this and stop insulting one another?
Susan
Susan
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ali Al-hajamy
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 7:40 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: hello i am a whiny sighted person complaining
about a problem on a nearly free service that turned out not to have
affected anything
My mistake and appologies. That oversight has been corrected. I
suspected that might be the case, but am not sure of the exact ratio of
sighted to blind volunteers, so took a chance and guessed, and I was wrong.
Also, if you, who appears, judging strictly by your posts to this list,
to be a perfectly competent and able volunteer with no previous problems
and who everyone seems to like, are going to stop volunteering after six
years of detication and hard work because of an offhand comment typed
out in five minutes in a temporary fit of frustration by someone who is
practically unknown in the Internet community and who affects your life
in no way at all, save for some annoyance at the afore mentioned offhand
comment, I submit that you've got problems far beyond the scope of any
discussion which might take place on this, or any other list, and that
you would have probably left anyway for something equally petty farther
on down the line. This is, of course, that you actually planned to
leave, and are not just making vague threats that you never plan to go
through with because you want me to retract my statements.
On 21-Apr-12 20:24, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:
> First of all, I'm not a person without sight. I'm not even a Bookshare
> member. I spend my free time VOLUNTEERING for Bookshare, which
> benefits me in no way at all.
>
> I could be spending my free time doing a number of other things. So
> there's no need to thank me, either, for my hard work over the last at
> least six years as a volunteer. Maybe I won't do it anymore.
>
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Ali Al-hajamy<aalhajamy@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> Oh, man. I hate it when I think an activity which required me to do
>> absolutely nothing labour-intensive failed on this here Bookshare thing,
and
>> then I find out later that it actually went well with a few minor
problems.
>> That's the worst. Which is why I then send a querulous, pointless
complaint
>> to a mailing list full of people who (a) already know this issue exists,
>> have discussed it many times before, and, so far as I'm aware, learned to
>> just deal with it, and (b) don't have the connections or resources to fix
it
>> when I want it fixed, that, of course, being now now now, right this
second,
>> in fact, who needs to be patient and wait for the engineering team to fix
>> things that are higher up on their list of priorities first when you can
>> just be loud and obnoxious and get what you want now, because that solves
>> all of life's problems in UHMERIKA!
>>
>> PS: I went ahead and changed your subject line for you. There's no need
to
>> thank me.
>>
>> On 21-Apr-12 14:37, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:
>>> At 4:39 this morning I tried to submit a book. As usual I got to the
>>> final step, where you can put in comments and that's the last step. It
>>> hangs. It hangs. It hangs. At 5:04 I got a notice that the site was
>>> having difficulties and I should try later.
>>>
>>> Except if I wanted to submit a book LATER, I'd be doing it later. I
>>> wouldn't be doing it at 4:39 in the morning. Later I'm going to be
>>> sleeping. So when I get up today I start to submit the book again.
>>> Good thing I checked my submissions list. It's listed there as being
>>> submitted at 3:38 a.m. And at 6:17 I got an email saying my book had
>>> been submitted. How was I supposed to know? The page never refreshed
>>> to say hey your book went through.
>>>
>>> I wish if the site was having difficulties it would say so on the
>>> FIRST step. Not on the LAST step. Then I wouldnt' bother to spend so
>>> much time sitting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting to
>>> see if it's going to go through, because you cannot move off that tab
>>> either, you have to stay active on the Bookshare tab or, in my
>>> experience, it takes even LONGER to submit, or won't submit at all. So
>>> much for the modern windows multitasking, right? Bookshare needs to
>>> catch up with the times.
>>>
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