Re: Stuttering time, gentlemen! (Re: another fun mobius script (andanother question!)

[Jeff Larson <jeff.larson@sailpoint.com>]

As a "manufacturer" I have mixed feelings about this.  Almost all

products have a dedicated support forum of some kind.  It is expected

by the users and it gives the manufacturer control over the content

so they can organize, edit, and possibly republish things in a different

form like, oh say a script library.

But product forums do tend to become "walled gardens" without much

information exchange about other products which can be helpful.  And

they tend to be focused on nuts and bolts rather how you might use

it to create something interesting.

I'm happy that people seem to be interested in Mobius discussion.

Such discussions have been happening for the past six years over

on the zonemobius list, it wasn't until I tried to move everyone

to a forum that things started leaking over here.  I'm not sure

what that means :)

I obviously can't control where people post, but here are some

suggestions.

If you have an "I'm a new user and I can't figure out where to plug

in the MIDI cable" kind of question, ask it on the forums since people

here are not likely to care.

At the other end of the spectrum, power user questions like "how does

latency compensation effect the timing of adjacent function statements

in scripts" or "why do I have a syntax error on this line", or really

any kind of "why doesn't this work" question belongs in the forum since

no one else cares.

But...things like "I wonder if Mobius can do X", or "check out this cool

technique" or "I published an interesting script", or really any kind

"hey look what I made!" post can certainly belong on LD as well as the forums.

Thanks,

Jeff