Comments on: The User http://iamthewalr.us/blog/2010/02/the-user/ by Colin Barrett Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:35:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adam Brown http://iamthewalr.us/blog/2010/02/the-user/comment-page-1/#comment-43982 Adam Brown Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:03:38 +0000 http://iamthewalr.us/blog/?p=275#comment-43982 <p>Upon needing to light the pilot light did you then walk outside to the A/C unit, open it up, look for the pilot light and upon finding nothing resembling the pilot light you lit before call the service number on the A/C unit and proceed to complain that this new heater design was messed up and broken?</p> <p>That's more like what the RWW commenters did.</p> Upon needing to light the pilot light did you then walk outside to the A/C unit, open it up, look for the pilot light and upon finding nothing resembling the pilot light you lit before call the service number on the A/C unit and proceed to complain that this new heater design was messed up and broken?

That’s more like what the RWW commenters did.

]]> By: Colin Barrett http://iamthewalr.us/blog/2010/02/the-user/comment-page-1/#comment-43981 Colin Barrett Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:13:25 +0000 http://iamthewalr.us/blog/?p=275#comment-43981 <p>Phil: That's not a particularly helpful or constructive comment. Could you please reply with an explanation?</p> Phil: That’s not a particularly helpful or constructive comment. Could you please reply with an explanation?

]]> By: Phil Nelson http://iamthewalr.us/blog/2010/02/the-user/comment-page-1/#comment-43980 Phil Nelson Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:47:42 +0000 http://iamthewalr.us/blog/?p=275#comment-43980 <p>Calling a metaphoul on that gas heater analogy.</p> Calling a metaphoul on that gas heater analogy.

]]> By: Colin Barrett http://iamthewalr.us/blog/2010/02/the-user/comment-page-1/#comment-43979 Colin Barrett Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:13:32 +0000 http://iamthewalr.us/blog/?p=275#comment-43979 <p>Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying.</p> <p>Here's an example from real life: I know nothing about gas heaters. Literally, nothing. I was able to light a pilot light on a gas heater <em>once</em> -- and that was largely through trial and error, plus a healthy dose of Youtube and WikiHow. A couple weeks ago, the heater at a friend's place wasn't working. I, of course, leapt into action. <em>Twenty minutes later I still had not lit the heater</em>. By the end there were three of us all peering into it, trying to figure it out. Eventually we just gave up and put on sweaters.</p> <p>Am I stupid? No. I just don't know shit about heaters. Are the RWW commenters stupid? No. They just don't know shit about how the internet works.</p> Yeah, that’s exactly what I’m saying.

Here’s an example from real life: I know nothing about gas heaters. Literally, nothing. I was able to light a pilot light on a gas heater once — and that was largely through trial and error, plus a healthy dose of Youtube and WikiHow. A couple weeks ago, the heater at a friend’s place wasn’t working. I, of course, leapt into action. Twenty minutes later I still had not lit the heater. By the end there were three of us all peering into it, trying to figure it out. Eventually we just gave up and put on sweaters.

Am I stupid? No. I just don’t know shit about heaters. Are the RWW commenters stupid? No. They just don’t know shit about how the internet works.

]]> By: Rob http://iamthewalr.us/blog/2010/02/the-user/comment-page-1/#comment-43978 Rob Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:44:15 +0000 http://iamthewalr.us/blog/?p=275#comment-43978 <p>Are you saying the people who commented on that ReadWriteWeb article aren't idiots?</p> <p>Because I'd have to disagree with you.</p> Are you saying the people who commented on that ReadWriteWeb article aren’t idiots?

Because I’d have to disagree with you.

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