Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5394692-20130829193107/@comment-5986608-20130909185942

I think something that bugs me most, and it's not specific to the wiki, but to english petitcom users in general is the QR leech mentality. You see it on YT quite a bit. After talking with a couple of japanese users, I stopped this practice of bugging for QR codes as well. Most Japanese users release a QR if there's no copyrighted material and they're _READY_ to release it and generally do so on the Japanese wiki (if on their own page, they'll supply a link on the japanese wiki).

After being bugged quite often for some QR codes I wasn't ready to throw out into the wild several times already and running into quite a few requests on japanese yt vids, it's actually quite annoying now as it seems the same people begging for QR's all over the place are the ones not really adding anything to the community by making their own programs and sharing them.

I probably come off as a grumpy old fart and I realise there's a distinct difference between user and programmer, but at least if you're going to be 'just a user', respect programmers a little bit more and stop begging for QR codes. When they're released, you'll likely know about it...I've been somewhat 'nice' in terms of QR's in that I offer my unfinished projects to people who are interested in my methods, but request they're not reposted publicly as I don't want unfinished projects representing me and my overall body of work.

I'm not saying I *hate* the users or anything. They provide valuable play testing that maybe some other programmers cannot provide to make a stable program and their feedback helps squash bugs that might be overlooked by the programmer. However, this constant asking for QRs in general...meh...patience and understanding goes a lot further than begging.

Just my 2 cents. Thanks for the wiki and the work of everyone. I'll try to not fudge up my future pages...I'm not adept at HTML so I use the NOOB INTERFACE myself. ;)