Do you think free ad's might help advance D?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Justin Johansson" <no at spam.com> wrote in message 
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> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Justin Johansson" <no at spam.com> wrote in message 
>> news:hv2i9l$227r$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>> "BCS" <none at anon.com> wrote in message 
>>>> news:a6268ff14ed78ccd7c6dbdc2432 at news.digitalmars.com...
>>>>> http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/free-vote-based-advertising-launches-second-round/
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm suggesting advertising for dev help not users. But that 
>>>>> presupposes that usable work could be found for any takers.
>>>>>
>>>> This is the part where I fly off the handle bitching about any site 
>>>> that incessantly nags non-JavaScript users, and forces that OpenID 
>>>> crap, and then start daydreaming about that StackOverflow-frontend site 
>>>> that I want to create but will probably never get around to, and even 
>>>> if I did they'd probably just send their lawyers after me and even if 
>>>> they didn't then 99% of programmers out there would still just bitch 
>>>> about how I'm not enough of a spineless group-think monkey to blindly 
>>>> and excitedly hop onto and fellatiate any and every idiotic tech fad 
>>>> that pops up like all the rest of them are...
>>>>
>>>> But you do bring up a very good idea for D publicity :)
>
> <RETRACTED>
>>> Huh, who cares <crap/> about your ready disposition to fly off the 
>>> handle or not about <shit>. I cannot see the relevancy in your answer to 
>>> the OP's post and find it hard to imagine that others would either. Sure 
>>> I'm prepared to be corrected.
>>>
>>> As for the OP's suggestion about advertising for dev help not users, 
>>> well that to me is pie in the sky especially given that D-complete is 
>>> not totally open source.  And sure that is Walter's perogative.
>>>
> </RETRACTED>
>
>> Huh? So has Jer/ArnoldSSchwartz/GirlProgrammer resorted to impersonating 
>> other people now?
>>
>
>
> Sorry Nick for offending you; I didn't mean to though after a re-read this 
> morning I think I could have worded much more politely or better still not 
> posted at all.  Please accept my apologies and consider my undiplomatic 
> post completely retracted.
>
> Justin
>

Oh, don't worry about it. I wasn't offended anyway, I try to have thick skin 
(very helpful for getting maximum benefit out of constructive, and 
not-so-constructive, criticism). Besides, I post bone-headed off-topic 
antagonistic stuff while thinking "Shit, should I have posted that?" all the 
time. Hell, just look at half the stuff I've written elsewhere in this 
thread :)