tenach

0 comments by tenach on May 12th, 2008 digg this super bookmark

There are some things that a project/group should not be handled. The biggest thing is including threats among poorly written emails. If there is someone that I cannot and will not stand for in a project is having a leader who does not know how to properly open up lines for good communication between him/her and his/her fellow developers.

Getting unexpected emails is a normal thing these days. Most email that I do not recognize goes immediately into the trash, because I do not have the time to figure them out. I trashed three emails from this website, and trashed them when I saw the contents was not written well. I knew that this was not an official message but a message that was sent to me by another person.

I log in and see that I have three messages, all sent in the same minute by the same person. The first email made little sense, but I could bare it. On to the second; it told me to "check the files" - what files? Following this, in all capitals (cruise control, for the Internet, or some such), was a threat that if I hack his/her computer I'll go to jail. The third email was telling me that he/she was sending me the files. I believe those were out of order. Supposing I could give the benefit of the doubt, one could have arrived faster than the other.

That came to me as part of a fourth email, and it gave me a little chuckle. If I hack his/her computer, they are going to come at me with thread and a needle, and then I'd be out of the group and put into jail. That made very little sense to me, but I do know what they were attempting to say.

To make any sense of the situation, I had to go to the group's modDB page and figure out what the project was that I was supposedly getting files for, only to find that it's an attempt at competing with a very well established mod that I happen to enjoy. Having a group that was silent suddenly barage me with obtuse emails that had no substance at all was rather surprising, and frankly, a bit annoying.

If they had written one substantial email instead of sending five, I might have been more inclined to take any time to help work with them, since I did join their group, after all. If they had more information regarding the project that they were demanding I work on, I might have budged.

In any case, I took the liberty to remove myself from their group and remove all messages on my personal modDB profile.