MathAndCode wrote: June 18th, 2021, 9:12 pmWhy wasn't this submitted to Catagolue? You had over four years to submit this to Catagolue, but you failed, thus consigning your component to become lost in the forums. Luckily, I found it—but that won't happen every time.
What
is this? Honestly I'm kind of shocked you seem to expect someone to remember every last thing vaguely synthesis-y they've ever posted and to have submitted them all the instant the Catagolue box was up and running, much less things they posted on an old account they most likely would love to forget existed. Your tone here also comes across, at least to me, as pretty condescending and a bit self-important, although idk for sure if that's how you meant it. I really think that sometimes rules 7/8 on the discord should really apply here, too...
I know I'm not exactly being the model of politeness here either, and I'm sorry about that. I do feel like you could stand a lot of the time to make less of a big deal of minor guidelines or pieces of forum etiquette, have some understanding of
why people do, or don't do, the things they do (or of course don't do), and realize that your expectations for others maybe aren't always realistic, and, beyond that, that your expectations
aren't something that other people need to follow if they don't want to. I respect so much of what you've done in the fairly short time you've been here, but you're not really an authority figure in this community (yet — maybe you'll get there in a decade or so, or maybe sooner), you're definitely not a moderator, and you're not speaking for the community's collective opinion here (even if you think you are), at the very least in tone, so I don't know that your opinions and statements about this issue really carry the kind of weight that entitles you in the minds of the community to speak like that, and unfortunately you're probably going to annoy or even anger a lot of people if you keep doing it.
(Honestly I'd be tempted to post what I quoted here on Famous Quotes — it'd certainly be a good fit — but that feels excessively rude and kind of petty, so I won't. I just think you'd get a lot friendlier of responses — and you might even be more likely to convince people to do what you wish they do! — if you said things less bluntly and more conciliatorily a lot of the time.)