Actually, I rechecked and it was 5 posts to replies and then this post.
http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=63169http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=63119http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=63252http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=63410http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=63411I'm sorry, I thought it was 6 because I didn't read the "Video under Mac Os X ?"
assuming you had posted the same thing under that topic also since it was a
Mac related thread. Dummy me didn't realize it, but that thread was already
in the Mac OS X section, hence you wouldn't have posted that reply to that
thread.
And I can understand your frustration regarding getting some sort of reply from
the Blitz Research guy(s), as I had an issue with that prior to purchasing
BlitzMax/MaxGui.
Personally though, I disagree with moving the OS X specific forum because it's
inteneded for OS X specific topics, like the Linux and Win32 sections are, but
there are more occassions when the discussion is not specific to an OS, which
are near the top, which is where most of the questions and discussions take
place. It's rare that a question is specific to an OS, so it's more viable and logical
to keep those sections further below where the majority of activity takes place.
If you use any other cross platform tools like this, you'll find their forums also
set up in this manner.
That, and in most situations like this, there are very very few users for Mac
OS X, or even Linux for that fact. And there's probably even more Linux users
than Mac users. The majority are Windows users.
Then, if you do move the Mac OS X section up, the Linux users are going to
want their section moved up, and of course the Windows users are not going
to take that lightly and feel that it's an insult if their section is not up there
also. In the end, the majority of users will be totally annoyed at having to scroll
down to get past the less used sections in order to get to the more active
sections where they want and need to get to.
~ The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few ~
My apologies if my initial reaction was a bit overboard. But honestly, my
reaction would have been the same regardless of the date, time or choice of
forums. Just finding the same reply posted in several threads would have
caused me to react the same way. I should probably learn to not let such
little things get to me though. My reaction is probably not justifiable.
You should have just started a new post in the other forums that was titled
with your intent so that there would be no confusion or OT situations within
an established thread.
IMO, regardless of what you do to attempt to get your idea to the powers that
be, it won't get the section moved.
But hey, gotta give you credit for at least taking some sort of action on
something you think is needed, maybe not the best way to go about bringing
attention to your cause, but at least you did something.
-Garrett