Posts made by handsomechip

Originally posted by Pesala:

Originally posted by handsomechip:

you do understand the only reason Richard and I are posting "venom" is IN RESPONSE to the snarky, insulting behavior by you and people like you?

The only reason you're posting personal attacks violating the TOS is because you failed to read the rules that you agreed to on signing up, or because you need some help with anger management.

Who cares about the rules, you useless pedantic tool? Especially if they allow people like you to be condescending, insulting pricks but don't allow anyone to respond in kind! And as if your beloved rules are even enforced at all. Some rules, some community, some browser. Enjoy your iron-fist stewardship of this forum, basement liege, backseat moderator! Bye-bye now.

Originally posted by Pesala:

The venom misdirected by confused or disgruntled users posting here is the main reason why new members cannot find the information they need. If everyone respected the forum rules and terms of service, it would be easy to find out how to recover your bookmarks in Opera 12.16 or how to import them to Opera 17.

...you do understand the only reason Richard and I are posting "venom" is IN RESPONSE to the snarky, insulting behavior by you and people like you? That's circular logic. No reading comprehension, no personality, and no critical thinking skills. No wonder you can't help anybody!

No, the main reason this is a mess is the awful way you've handled things. The new versions of opera are causing problems for the users. Searching, the main thing we see is people being flamed or insulted for asking a simple question.

Originally posted by Pesala:

Originally posted by Al-Khwarizmi:

I just don't see any advantage to alternative 1.

Do nothing is also an option, but then Mr angry poster may stimulate more angry "Me too" posts.

You assume just because you do nothing, no one else will either. Ever hear of "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all"?

Originally posted by Al-Khwarizmi:

Honestly I think sticklering to forum rules, regardless of whether it's "right" or "wrong" from a moral point of view, is not practical. Dealing with annoyed people (and there are plenty with the new versions of Opera) takes some psychology, it's not very useful to act as if every person in the world was 100% rational at all times because it's just not the case.

Annoyed user comes complaining about bookmarks. Possible answers:

1. Write (or copy-paste) a text about forum rules. Consequence: long flamewar thread ensues (we have seen it a lot of times).

2. Copy-paste a text about the current status of bookmarks. Same amount of work as alternative 1. Consequence: maybe a few posts about how bad that is, but no flamewar because no one will get personally offended by a post.

3. Do nothing. Even less amount of work. Consequence: probably same as 2.

I just don't see any advantage to alternative 1.

Not an option. This is apparently their only source of self-esteem in their life. What other reason is there to come and do the same thing over and over again to innocent people, to the same result?

Originally posted by Pesala:

Originally posted by handsomechip:

I come here looking for help

Not a great way to ask for help :down:

Rant in a thread about Opera 17 about a problem in Opera 12.16.

I hope you find the Firefox forums more to your tastes. :bye:

I wasn't talking about a problem with opera 12.16. I also wasn't asking for help: I came here searching threads looking for help, but ran into nothing but you and your fellow basement-dwellers getting your kicks by lording over all the people with bookmark issues. Your utter lack of reading comprehension skills matches your abysmal personality!

I tried to access my bookmarks in the middle of the workday, only to discover that they're all gone. I checked the .adr bookmark file, and they're indeed gone. Installed an earlier version 12.x, gone.

If that wasn't bad enough, I come here looking for help and only find entitled, self-righteous tools in every thread I read - providing no help, but still manging to masturbate with insults and the occasional, snarky, insider 'answers' that apparently make sense to the people who are on this forum every day, but not to the regular users of this browser like myself who haven't kept up on the daily workings of this product. Please, forgive us for expecting the bookmarks we need to work like they have for the past umpteen years! And requesting help too? What nerve!

I've used opera since I was a teenager and the browser was still in one of its earliest versions. I've seen the features other browsers boast over Opera, but never felt there was any real compulsion to make the switch. This tears it. It's like stopping in some dying, post-industrial town, and finding only unfriendly xenophobic yokels. It's hard to believe provincial enclaves like this still exist.