I mean, you can expect it, but you’ll be disappointed for obvious reasons
Walking into a fan group and shitting on the thing they’re fans of while asking for recommendations for alternatives is pretty much never going to result in a positive outcome
“This is a horrible program and I hate everything about it. Any of you actually using this program are masochists and need to get some help. Anyway, can you idiots recommend some alternatives?”
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“I tried out this program and didn’t really like it, it was too complicated to use (or) doesn’t have a feature I need, do you guys know of any good alternatives I can try out?”
Apparently the OP in this image was closer to the first one, so I don’t really blame them for being toxic. But if I asked like in the second example and these are the responses I get, they’re the problem, not my question.
And that’s the point, they came in shitting on the thing the group was there for
I’d still not ask that there, because people there are going to be more focused on the thing you don’t want to use. A more generalist group would be a better place to ask that, as even the second way asked in a Gimp group is going to mainly attract people who want to defend their favored project or help you fix the issue with it, when that’s not what you’re after.
Just as a reminder, the only thing the original comment that I replied to said was:
To be fair, you can’t exactly ask for a GIMP replacement on r/GIMP and not expect that reaction
There was no context in the original image or the original comment that the OP was being an ass about it. All I was arguing is that you shouldn’t immediately expect toxicity if you’re not being toxic yourself. I do agree it’s not the proper place to ask, and that your answers aren’t going to be super helpful.
Sure you can.
I mean, you can expect it, but you’ll be disappointed for obvious reasons
Walking into a fan group and shitting on the thing they’re fans of while asking for recommendations for alternatives is pretty much never going to result in a positive outcome
Depends on how you ask.
vs
Apparently the OP in this image was closer to the first one, so I don’t really blame them for being toxic. But if I asked like in the second example and these are the responses I get, they’re the problem, not my question.
And that’s the point, they came in shitting on the thing the group was there for
I’d still not ask that there, because people there are going to be more focused on the thing you don’t want to use. A more generalist group would be a better place to ask that, as even the second way asked in a Gimp group is going to mainly attract people who want to defend their favored project or help you fix the issue with it, when that’s not what you’re after.
Just as a reminder, the only thing the original comment that I replied to said was:
There was no context in the original image or the original comment that the OP was being an ass about it. All I was arguing is that you shouldn’t immediately expect toxicity if you’re not being toxic yourself. I do agree it’s not the proper place to ask, and that your answers aren’t going to be super helpful.
Fair enough