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Re: Re: Stuttering time, gentlemen! (Re: another fun mobius script(and another question!)
This all sounds fair and reasoned out................what he said!
rick walker
On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Jeff Larson wrote:
>
> As a "manufacturer" I have mixed feelings about this. Almost all
> products have a dedicated support forum of some kind. It is expected
> by the users and it gives the manufacturer control over the content
> so they can organize, edit, and possibly republish things in a different
> form like, oh say a script library.
>
> But product forums do tend to become "walled gardens" without much
> information exchange about other products which can be helpful. And
> they tend to be focused on nuts and bolts rather how you might use
> it to create something interesting.
>
> I'm happy that people seem to be interested in Mobius discussion.
> Such discussions have been happening for the past six years over
> on the zonemobius list, it wasn't until I tried to move everyone
> to a forum that things started leaking over here. I'm not sure
> what that means :)
>
> I obviously can't control where people post, but here are some
> suggestions.
>
> If you have an "I'm a new user and I can't figure out where to plug
> in the MIDI cable" kind of question, ask it on the forums since people
> here are not likely to care.
>
> At the other end of the spectrum, power user questions like "how does
> latency compensation effect the timing of adjacent function statements
> in scripts" or "why do I have a syntax error on this line", or really
> any kind of "why doesn't this work" question belongs in the forum since
> no one else cares.
>
> But...things like "I wonder if Mobius can do X", or "check out this cool
> technique" or "I published an interesting script", or really any kind
> "hey look what I made!" post can certainly belong on LD as well as the
> forums.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>