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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>As a regular user or a moderator you are not compelled to answer questions you are not interested in, and it is not your place to dictate how people should use forums, whether you are a moderator or not. If you find a question annoying or of poor quality you are free to downvote it and move on.</p> <p>If you can't take a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/pmbg43/is_there_an_api_for_getting_the_properties_under/hcjwsz6/">criticism</a> then don't <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/pm7co5/does_the_orgelementapi_have_a_role_in_executing/hcjwalw/">criticise others publicly</a> and use your role as moderator to <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/pm7co5/does_the_orgelementapi_have_a_role_in_executing/">terminate the discussion</a>.</p> <p>The fact that you responded so quick to my reply with a whole list of my posts to emacs forums on reddit indicates that you gathered that list beforehand or you have some kind of emacs reddit api that pulled up my questions at short notice, and this is the kind of thing I'm talking about.</p> <p>Not all of us are you. Not all of us are emacs hackers and developers as your regular announcements of your emacs packages shows. If you are going to bring the mindset of an avid developer to this forum then you are probably not the right person to be the moderator. This is a place where people come to seek help or some background info. They are not here to be lectured on the mindset with which they should approach emacs.</p> <p>This is reddit, not stackoverflow which is where you should be if you have this mindset.</p> <p>I was writing Z80 assembler in the early 1980s. I am not a noob to computers. I am simply what you might call a power user and I don't have the wherewithal to delve into every nook and cranny of the tools I use..</p> <p>As to why I posted rather than messaged you, what goes for <a href="/u/jsled">u/jsled</a> also goes for <a href="/u/github-alphapapa">/u/github-alphapapa</a>.</p> <p><strong>Addendum:</strong></p> <p>Another thing to add about why I tend to ask so called simple questions. Having been coding for a long time, I have learned not to <strong>roll your own code</strong> needlessly in a language you are not that familiar with, or in a domain you are not familiar it. This is because you inevitably make mistakes, and you wind up with code which comes back to haunt you later. So it is my experience which leads me to <strong>ask simple questions</strong> about basic APIs, even if there is documentation, especially in a dynamic language like Lisp where you discover the rubbish you've typed only at runtime..</p> <p>In Pascal or Java, you only have to type a function name and the Intellisense system will offer you nearbly local variables and stop you when the stuff you are typing doesn't make sense. You don't have that kind of thing with Lisp.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/vfclists"> /u/vfclists </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/pms4q7/githubalphapapa_please_dont_engage_in_the_kind_of/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/pms4q7/githubalphapapa_please_dont_engage_in_the_kind_of/">[comments]</a></span> |