This thread is hilarious.

This is like asking a car mechanic what an alternator is. Then when he gives you a handbook explaining what one is, you throw it back and spit fury in his face. Other people don't breathe to cater to your every whim, especially when you reject more than adequate explanations for questions.

No, you are not clever. Aside from not being able to understand the simplest of things, you are not clever enough to speak to others with tact and respect. For this reason alone you should either re-evaluate the way you behave around others, or take a position which does not require teamwork. If you can't respond well to help, you cannot be expected to react accordingly when faced with the criticism you will surely face when making a pull request.

On Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 09:10:35 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
> Author of the thread is not interested in getting right answer.
>
> I do not know why, but in usenet groups there is this kind of trolling (asking naive questions to troll those who answer). I met it for the first time in comp.lang.c where it was used to assault frequent contributors. Luckily digitalmars-d is not that littered by trolls, spam and porn as comp.lang.c
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> Interesting issue here is whether there would be some kind of ex post moderation.

It is not unique to usenet, even contrary, kind of example of contemporary internet "culture". D newsgroup did not have this issue that much only because it is not wide-known, any popular internet community that does not have any form of moderation get overrun by trolls damn fast. (Though I remember few similar cases before, it took crazy amount of time until posts were actually deleted and author banned)

What surprises me is that someone replies to this posts and even tries to answer the "questions". It is like some of you guys have never met a troll before. X_x

On Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 08:48:28 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> This thread is hilarious.
>
> This is like asking a car mechanic what an alternator is. Then when he gives you a handbook explaining what one is, you throw it back and spit fury in his face. Other people don't breathe to cater to your every whim, especially when you reject more than adequate explanations for questions.
>
> No, you are not clever. Aside from not being able to understand the simplest of things, you are not clever enough to speak to others with tact and respect. For this reason alone you should either re-evaluate the way you behave around others, or take a position which does not require teamwork. If you can't respond well to help, you cannot be expected to react accordingly when faced with the criticism you will surely face when making a pull request.

Spare your saliva, it's the typical random troll. Probably the same drunk/lunatic guy coming over and over again in this newsgroup.

I wonder if there are sociological studies of guys like that. I've yet to understand what their motivation is, if there is one.