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I'm going to go out on a limb and day that it sounds as though your behaviour wasn't very responsible. Fair enough - there was a bug, it needed to be fixed. Bri

by aidos 13y ago

I'm going to go out on a limb and day that it sounds as though your behaviour wasn't very responsible. Fair enough - there was a bug, it needed to be fixed. Bringing it to the attention of everyone in the way you did doesn't sound very mature. Obviously you thought it was urgent and maybe the admins weren't being responsive enough. You have to keep in mind that priorities vary. Always keep in mind, there are real people on the other end who have to deal with this. What if your actions dragged an unhappy parent away from a sick child to deal with a PITA who thought his issue was so important as to demand immediate attention?

jmadsen 13y ago
I know who these people were. They were a few young, just out of college, kids running a game site as their "full-time" job. And by "no response", I meant "no response", not "no fix". Each of those periods was a 24-hr wait. I appreciate your sentiment, but in this case I knew precisely who I was dealing with, and their reputation for (not) dealing with things.
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TeMPOraL 13y ago
> Bringing it to the attention of everyone in the way you did doesn't sound very mature. It's how security disclosures work if the vendor is not cooperative enough to fix the broken stuff. It's better to get the bug fixed silently, but if you can't get that, then for users it's better to have the problem known widely to public and thus fixed on short notice than for it not to be fixed for a long time, risking exploiting by malicious individuals. > What if your actions dragged an unhappy parent away from a sick child to deal with a PITA who thought his issue was so important as to demand immediate attention? It's not OP's problem. One can't take responsiblity for everything people will do because of a comment one wrote. Otherwise you'd have to bill me for the time you spent reading this comment instead of working.

by aidos 13y ago

jmadsen 13y ago

I know who these people were. They were a few young, just out of college, kids running a game site as their "full-time" job. And by "no response", I meant "no response", not "no fix". Each of those periods was a 24-hr wait. I appreciate your sentiment, but in this case I knew precisely who I was dealing with, and their reputation for (not) dealing with things.

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TeMPOraL 13y ago

> Bringing it to the attention of everyone in the way you did doesn't sound very mature. It's how security disclosures work if the vendor is not cooperative enough to fix the broken stuff. It's better to get the bug fixed silently, but if you can't get that, then for users it's better to have the problem known widely to public and thus fixed on short notice than for it not to be fixed for a long time, risking exploiting by malicious individuals. > What if your actions dragged an unhappy parent away from a sick child to deal with a PITA who thought his issue was so important as to demand immediate attention? It's not OP's problem. One can't take responsiblity for everything people will do because of a comment one wrote. Otherwise you'd have to bill me for the time you spent reading this comment instead of working.