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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 27, 2023 at 08:59 PM
Speaking for myself, I have absolutely no problem with that!
I also find your question on Scrivener’s promotion perfectly reasonable and legitimate. From my part, I am concerned when developers seem to be giving too much away for free or for peanuts. With scaled online services there is the theoretical concept of “zero marginal cost”, but don’t get me started on it…
Andy Brice wrote:
>Is that an unacceptable level of self-promotion?
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 27, 2023 at 10:14 PM
Andy,
I guess I can only speak for myself—though I believe most of the folks on this forum would share my sentiments—but I welcome your comments. I have no problem with you mentioning Hyperplan—an excellent app, btw. It is good to get the perspective of developers. Sure there are some commenters who ramble on and on and on. But your posts are always succinct and interesting.
Steve
Andy Brice wrote:
I made one reference to my software on the ’ Software that supports
>custom attributes and can generate all combinations of them?’ thread,
>that I thought was relevant. A couple of other people commented on that.
>
>I included a sig in this thread.
>
>I think that is all posted in the last week or two.
>
>Is that an unacceptable level of self-promotion?
>
>22111 wrote:
>> and btw, from his
>>musings about software development, he has removed reader comments some
>>time ago, and I can confirm that before, there had not been any problem
>>with “inadequate” user comments, all to the contrary: many of them had
>>been very constructive, but that’s probably what motivated Mr. Brice to
>>do away with them.
>
>You are quite wrong on this.
>
>Comments are open on my blog for some months after each post is
>published. They are then automatically closed to reduce the amount of
>spam comments (spammers like to target old blog posts). Check the latest
>post, if you don’t believe me.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Feb 27, 2023 at 10:19 PM
Andy Brice wrote:
I made one reference to my software on the ’ Software that supports
>custom attributes and can generate all combinations of them?’ thread,
>that I thought was relevant. A couple of other people commented on that.
>
>I included a sig in this thread.
>
>I think that is all posted in the last week or two.
>
>Is that an unacceptable level of self-promotion?
@Andy: No, for me your postings are not unacceptable self-promotion. For me you are a competent and helpful contributor to this forum. And I hope you will continue to be so despite that unacceptable attack by 22111.
@22111: Not only do you rant about software and OSses you obviously never really used, you also insult people here. In my world, that is absolutely unacceptable. Make useful contributions or shut up.
Posted by Chris Murtland
Feb 27, 2023 at 11:21 PM
Andy’s posts are totally fine with me. I personally appreciate small developers contributing to this forum.
Also, while there has always been a special interest in outliners specifically, this site has never been limited to that: we’ve always had a lot of discussion of note takers, wikis, databases, knowledge managers, etc., etc.
Let’s limit our discussion to software and leave out the personal attacks, please.
Posted by Amontillado
Feb 28, 2023 at 03:11 AM
Well, personally, I don’t know Mr. Brice. I just buy his software for a fraction of what it’s worth and exploit the crud out of it for personal gain. :-)
@22111 - If I may be bold, please continue to contribute but in a way that leaves room for differing opinion and use cases. I like to defend, no, strike that, I like to clarify and bolster my view of how a given application can support a given methodology. When I do that, I often learn from how others employ tools.
That makes applications more valuable to me.