
07-19-2008, 01:50 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 3,914
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I have no issue whatsoever with using pseudocode to demonstrate a point, neither do I have any issue with people explaining every excruciating detail on how to do something. What I do object to is people who expect others to do the work for them, which is why those two rules are there. If we just paste a full script, we don't know if it will just get copied, pasted and used with no further observation - in which case, nothing learned, nothing gained. In that case, it would have been better for someone to have hired a scripter for their server instead of using someone else's time for your own means. Similarly, people posting very long scripts and asking people to fix them doesn't help the situation either, since you should be taking it steps at a time and trying to understand small sections. Walking before you run. People should be learning the routine steps of scripting. For instance, a lot of posts in the scripting forum would be resolved if people would just learn to read the wiki or /scripthelp in RC.
There's a big difference between asking "Can someone explain how to X?" which is acceptable, and "Can someone do Y for me?" which isn't. If you feel that you need some reference material to look at, then there is plenty of scripting in the code gallery to browse (although you may need to tweak the forum settings to show posts further in the past to see more), and there are documents on the Graal Bible also. I really don't see it necessary to change the rules. |
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