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After I (happily!) did their work for them, a simple "thank you", or even an acknowledgment through a closed ticket, would have entirely sufficed to make my day

by anyfoo 4y ago

After I (happily!) did their work for them, a simple "thank you", or even an acknowledgment through a closed ticket, would have entirely sufficed to make my day.

rcfox 4y ago
Back when Stack Overflow was in beta, the original design was really rough, so I mocked up a suggested new design for the main page via Stylish and submitted it to them. Within a day or two, they adopted something almost identical but never acknowledged me. One could argue it was a pretty basic idea (I only spent around 15 minutes on it myself) and they probably arrived there independently, but I still like to believe that I influenced a major site's design.
- stavros 4y ago
  Back when reddit was good, I was a moderator of a pretty large subreddit. One April Fools' day, I decided that, as a joke, I'd edit my subreddit's CSS to show the "reddit is down" image over of the home page. I did that, and, a few minutes later, reddit was actually down. One could argue it was a coincidence, but I still like to believe that I influenced a major site's uptime. Mostly because they told me I crashed the site and asked me not to play any more jokes like that again.
- brigandish 4y ago
  Speaking of SO, their policy of removing "thank you" and things like "any help is much appreciated" etc is why I've stopped contributing to the site. Even ChatGPT has better manners, and is possibly on the way to being more human than the people who made that rule, and certainly less of a wanker.
kvark 4y ago
Or maybe the bug was closed as a duplicate of one they were already aware of? Still impolite of them, of course, but we shouldn’t assume the worst.
- deleted 4y ago
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- Danieru 4y ago
  Protip for other gamedevs: when a player reports a bug you already know about say "thanks for the report, the fix will be in the next patch". It is not the players fault patches take time to get through QA. Nor should there be an implicit valuation curve to free bug reports from players.

by anyfoo 4y ago

After I (happily!) did their work for them, a simple "thank you", or even an acknowledgment through a closed ticket, would have entirely sufficed to make my day.

rcfox 4y ago

Back when Stack Overflow was in beta, the original design was really rough, so I mocked up a suggested new design for the main page via Stylish and submitted it to them. Within a day or two, they adopted something almost identical but never acknowledged me. One could argue it was a pretty basic idea (I only spent around 15 minutes on it myself) and they probably arrived there independently, but I still like to believe that I influenced a major site's design.

stavros 4y ago
Back when reddit was good, I was a moderator of a pretty large subreddit. One April Fools' day, I decided that, as a joke, I'd edit my subreddit's CSS to show the "reddit is down" image over of the home page. I did that, and, a few minutes later, reddit was actually down. One could argue it was a coincidence, but I still like to believe that I influenced a major site's uptime. Mostly because they told me I crashed the site and asked me not to play any more jokes like that again.
brigandish 4y ago
Speaking of SO, their policy of removing "thank you" and things like "any help is much appreciated" etc is why I've stopped contributing to the site. Even ChatGPT has better manners, and is possibly on the way to being more human than the people who made that rule, and certainly less of a wanker.

kvark 4y ago

Or maybe the bug was closed as a duplicate of one they were already aware of? Still impolite of them, of course, but we shouldn’t assume the worst.

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Danieru 4y ago
Protip for other gamedevs: when a player reports a bug you already know about say "thanks for the report, the fix will be in the next patch". It is not the players fault patches take time to get through QA. Nor should there be an implicit valuation curve to free bug reports from players.