Thread:KevinFoley/@comment-5334617-20141210040014

You made a point in the VSYNC vs WAIT comments that I skipped over, but is probably worth a reply, even though it's not related to the commands themselves, or the article. Why don't I write tutorials of my own? No-one else seems to be writing the kind of articles you'd like to see!

There are reasons. The main one is that I don't write tutorials so well as I write specifications. I really want to have all the facts, more than I want to have a jaunty educational story told to me - and I suspect this makes my approach somewhat abnormal, less palatable to the majority. Also, I don't know what topics are worthy of having a tutorial dedicated to them, and when I do, I'm sometimes not sure what level of knowledge to take as 'given'. Now I know that at least one person thinks VSYNC and WAIT is a topic worthy of a tutorial. And now, would the wiki benefit more from one collaborative entry on the topic, or two seperate entries? Two entries would be clutter, duplication of effort.

For an analogy, I don't know what city to visit on holiday - but, if the person I'm vacationing with chooses a city, I can help pick out what landmarks there are worth special attention... but even then, I can't write poetically about those landmarks.

I apologize that I started my comment with a criticism that was not constructive. That was poor form on my part, and probably coloured your interpretation of all the rest of the comment.

More generally, any article contribution to a wiki is a gift to the community. Let it go, divorce your ego from it. Take it as read that the gift is appreciated... otherwise, you will just frustrate yourself. It may not be appreciated in the way you would like it to be appreciated... that's the risk you take when you give a gift. And if its quality is criticized, you can assume that the critic is trying to help improve the quality of the gift as it is received by yet others in the community.

One alternative is to create your own tutorial website. You're absolutely permitted, and welcomed, to do that. But contributing to a wiki is a very different scenario. 