Doesn't matter. If people here said that your thread was a little bit spammy, but that it's alright if it's only occasional, then you would have a point.tepples wrote:The problem is the frequency. Replace "a dozen" with "occasional" and there shouldn't be quite as much of a problem.
But instead, your thread basically had a 100% approval rating, with people thanking you and defending you. So, why should it be a problem if I frequently post those useful and approved threads that people are so grateful for?
That's like saying: "Occasionally posting interesting newly found NES hardware quirks that help people understanding NES programming is alright, but doing it too often is not good."
Or, the other way around: Saying that posting these kinds of threads too often is not good means that you admit that your thread does have a certain uselessness to it.
Well, as long as I don't actually repeat the same topic, but each thread is a completely new independent topic (one day I post an article about Coca Cola, the next day I post something about the influence of the hippie movement, the next day it's about cloud formations etc.), there shouldn't be an issue. Your thread was 100% defended and regarded as 0% unnecessary and clickbaity. So, what's the problem in posting 10 threads per week of 100% usefulness?tepples wrote:About ten years ago, we indeed had a problem with someone who would flood General Stuff with talk about his own psychological problems.
You didn't lack a ripe discussion point, you were lacking a whole discussion since your contribution consisted of nothing but posting an article with a little comment and then never intending to come back to the thread.tepples wrote:I had thought about mentioning that in my first post to the topic, but I just barely decided that it wasn't yet the ripest point in the discussion to mention it.
There was literally zero reason to post this, other than the stupid pun regarding the word homebrew. If game homebrew was instead called "self-cultivation", you would have never posted a beer thread.
You have a very strange way of perceiving things. This question sounds like the question a computer might ask.tepples wrote:Should it be made a rule of General Stuff that any thematic connection between an off-topic post and the overall NESdev topic ought to be disclosed in the first post of a topic?
No, it's not necessary that these kind of things "ought to be disclosed in the first post of a topic". Just use your common sense and write your thread titles in a way so that they actually represent what is talked about and don't write clickbait headlines like those moronic YouTube assholes, just to lure game developers into a thread that has nothing to do with game developing.
That's like me saying:
"Interested in getting a date? Here's how you should do it."
And then:
var date = new System.DateTime(2014, 05, 27);
And if not writing a clickbaity headline defeats the whole purpose of creating your thread in the first place (since you didn't want to inform about beer and simply wanted to use a lame pun), then don't create the fucking thread because in this case it's just spam.
Sometimes I'm really perplexed at how your line of thought is:tepples wrote:I guess a second thing that led me to post this topic was frustration with my boss at my day job (Phil's Hobby Shop), who is so busy with the craft brewery that he just established and with which I am not involved (Hop River Brewing Company) that he has very little time left to attend to managing my programming work.
"My boss is so busy with his stupid beer brewery, that I just had to post an article about how beer brewers were treated wrong by superstitious morons in the middle ages." And let's not ignore: You complain that your boss cares for his beer and not for your programs, yet you write a thread in a programming forum that sounds like it's about programming and then in the end it's just about beer.
Do you manage to see the irony in this?