Congrats to prolific Sergey
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Posh work on the Q&A. You are now (of in a few minutes) a millionaire :cool: We certainly have enjoyed every kopek - you give top notch answers all around.
-- The trouble with people,
is that they want to hear only what they want to hear.When said SAK becomes a QA Millionaire, imho, that is a sad day for CP: it is a testimony to how someone ... for whatever reasons ... can systematically "game the system." Along the path to this "achievement:" 1. alienating hundreds of newcomers and beginners in CP with gratuitous personal insults, off-topic quibbling, rants, including, at times, re-labeling the titles of their posts with statements like "[I am lazy]," "[No effort]." 2. almost begging, at times, to have his posts accepted as the correct answer. 3. filling QA with off-topic posts that do not respond to the question(s) asked stuffed with links to other answers he has already posted which also do not respond to the question(s) asked. 4. quibbling, and often niggling, comments on other solutions offered. A typical SAK response to a QA question is: 1. posting a derogatory comment on the OP suggesting the poster is ignorant, totally confused, and/or hopelessly stupid they would even mention a (your choice of ... Mdi ... PictureBox ... etc.). 2. followed by a quick post of a "Solution," many of which are obvious cut-and-pastes of previous answers, many of which are so far off-topic they could be science-fiction, padded with links to other off-topic solutions. This is usually followed by someone(s) rapidly voting his solution #5. Yes, some of his posts are worth-their-weight-in-gold, and are quite thoughtful; yes, he has technical skills, and knowledge, and he shows evidence of having had a kind of formal, theoretical, computer science education that I think is very rare today. My estimate is that the true value of his "rep" score ... if QA were not the video-arcade ego-game it is now which is so easily "gamed" for rep-bloat ... is far less than 500k points. I am, frankly, sad to see this happen because there are lots of other CP members trying to help out on QA who really try to relate to, and educate, newcomers, and provide solutions of enduring value. The fact that some of the imho most-gifted, most skilled, most articulate, CP members, like Pete O'Hanlon and Marc Clifton, have, in the past, stated publicly on CP that they avoid QA because of the behavior of SAK is, to me, a reality I find incomprehensible. SAK => QA millionaire makes about as much sense to me as some of the Presidents my country (USA) has elected :)
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.
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Half of his points are unwarranted. He posts comments pointing to his answers in the same question, in order to get twice as many as he should.
Richard MacCutchan wrote:
He posts comments pointing to his answers in the same question, in order to get twice as many as he should.
Solution is 10 points, comment is 1 point. :doh:
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Posh work on the Q&A. You are now (of in a few minutes) a millionaire :cool: We certainly have enjoyed every kopek - you give top notch answers all around.
-- The trouble with people,
is that they want to hear only what they want to hear.I see a lot of animosity towards him and I can sort of understand it. That used to be my opinion of him as well until I went back and forth on a few things with him and feel I better understand him. I don't think he is intentionally insulting but does have an issue with people skills. I believe he is Russian so it could just simply be a cultural or language issue. I've seen way too many good answers from him for me to bash him and I think he certainly deserves the 1M+ points. I have seen other high rep members give lousy answers so they (we) all should look in the mirror before pointing the finger. :doh:
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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There's a group of mutual admiration...
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello