Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 7/14/06, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 7/14/06, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
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Given that this massive influx of annoyed
complaints plainly
demonstrates that users are much more commonly and much more seriously
the ones that get annoyed,
If one one thousandth of the users complained, how many people would that be?
What percentage would signify something of significance?
What percentage has complained thus far?
You have just undermined my argumentation. The amount of annoyed users
is obviously strictly greater than the amount of annoyed e-mails we
actually see. We actually see an annoyed e-mail from a new user almost
every day. But how many similarly annoyed e-mails do you see from admins?
I suspect you didn't intend to say what you said, and thus you
wouldn't enjoy my thanks for admiting your failure.. :)
Heh, yeah, see my other posting :)
In any case, You're making a significant logical
error.... You are claiming:
*Users get angry if admins take action against them
*admins get pissed if users are bad
*there are strictly more pissed users than pissed admins
thus
*Admins are taking action against good users because otherwise we
would expect equal numbers of angry users and angry admins.
There are a number of mistakes with this line of reasoning. The most
important of which is that admins don't always get pissed when users
do bad...
I don't see how I'm making this assumption. Quite to the contrary, you
now seem to be making the assumption that users always get pissed when
admins do bad against them...
The claim you are referring to made is that only if
users are bad
admins are pissed, not if and only if.
I'm sorry, this sentence does not parse grammatically. Please rephrase? :)
Your argument also makes questionable assumptions
about the
probability of an annoyed person speaking up.
Does it? Are you alleging that all or most annoyed people speak up? I
don't think so.
I am quite sure that mistakes are made... and that we
even have a few
low quality admins. ... But I've seen no information which causes me
to believe that this should be considered a high priority problem
You'd rather continue to have this flurry of angry complaints on this
mailing list? :)
Timwi