[hobbit] Top-Posting (was Re: [hobbit] Custom script shows purple)

[Jerald Sheets]

Post of the year.


On Apr 28, 2010, at 10:07 PM, Vernon Everett wrote:

> Top posting? Bottom Posting? Who cares? Really?
> What are we trying to achieve here? Stop and think about it for a moment.
> 
> This is a forum for us to share knowledge, experience and know-how with each other.
> This forum is kept alive by posts from people who give up their time to post. They don't have to post, they do it as a favour. A donation of time, as it were.
> Complaining about how people post to this forum, is like giving a hundred bucks to charity, in ten dollar notes, and they complain the want two fifties instead. 
> Would you give again? I know I wouldn't.
> 
> Most people on this list are pretty smart, and know how to scroll up, and some even know how to scroll down.
> You get a response to your question posted by somebody who is doing us all a favour. Take it and be happy. Don't complain about how you got it.
> That's just being ungrateful.
> 
> Regards
>     Vernon
> 
> P.S. This response has also been bottom-posted for your convenience.
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