User talk:Jamesmoody

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• Sorry we seem to have a different definition of profanity and the appropriate. S***ty is a rather apt term when things don't work right. For example, I'll address wiki business on the wiki, and expect the same—wiki's are about collaborative efforts, it's fairly plain something you guys have done failed in that respect... things never took off.

I think it embarrassing that a wiki started so long ago is in such a P*** Poor state, it wasn't even initialized with Public Domain standard help pages, and even ParserFunctions (which I badly need, I couldn't even begin to write Template:N3V-Help-Image and Template:Help-Image a while ago as I can't test conditions, files, parameters, so have a Sh***th temporary placeholder workaround... NOT HAPPY FACE MAKING! {{Tlx}} is not yet useable, which is pretty much needed for any smart template exposition and help... all that TAKES UP AND WASTES my freely donated TIME... So stop that!).

Think Chris is or has gotten the picture that I only mean well, and if I wanted to be confrontational, I could really roast the company on the forum, and the Wikibook. I'm only trying to make you all look better, but that certainly means changing the status quo. For starters, if someone comes out with a browser that requires HTML 5, the whole site is non-compliant. There's no Common.css and Common.js files in place. No classes to call, only HTML 4, which have been obsolescent now for what, five or six years?

Coming in this spring after years of casual browsing to see in detail how little Trainz has progressed, how few changes and how dead this wiki is (Hasn't really progressed much since I first saw it back in late 2009, iirc) has been an eye opener. Not sure what you guys actually do, but I guess you can be proud you don't use coarse language.

On the other commentary/responses... Talk:TADDaemon, I have to parse what you changed to understand all your answers. Wikiquette when interleaving is to indent in between 'voices' (responses). Numerous people can then address a paragraph's point... or just the two. Taking things out of order to change the original text makes it rather difficult to see the conversational flow. Breaking the context seems to be a bad thought habit in N4V group think. Sign each para/post with four tildes, that adds a date stamp and your sig, which you can customize under preferences. (See mine)

I have to reconstruct the original text to make sense of your rebuttal. Again... a time investment for me. Regardless, as Chris understands, I'm here to help, and TADDaemon with all it's time wasting is NOT something which is working well or properly in the real user world. I'm like Chris there, what counts is what I see, the trouble for you guys is we have thousands of times the number of eyes, time on the job and places where we're seeing insufficient progress, or worse, a lack of attention or acknowledgement that there are serious issues. I know of three long time content creators, people with hundreds of DLS assets created between them that won't use TS2009 SP3 and beyond because of all the time TADDaemon wastes reconnecting when it should be connected (assuming it's needed at all), why it's active at all when we're in surveyor is a mystery. Makes no sense. You go with the local data base, no one is upgrading or downloading from in surveyor. As you can see, I've got a few Trainz versions to choose from, and TS12 is not one anyone should be happy with as an operator given all it's pauses and time wastes. So sorry if you're offended by my casual choice in language, but do credit that we are from different societies. That language doesn't raise anyone's eyebrows over here.

But do get used to having other computer professionals taking a serious look at your work, for as far as I'm concerned if I did my job as you guys have seemed to have done yours, the F-22 Raptor would crash every 99th flight, the Patriot missile would turn around and blast it's launcher or control vans, Laser eye surgery would burn through into peoples' cornea, and the Trident missile wouldn't ever threaten to launch from Ohio class submarines... so you'd likely be forcibly learning Chinese or Russian there down under. Those are only a fraction of the complex things I've been part of in my career, and when something runs worse than the version three releases before, something smells.

BTW, Given the ridiculously annoying wait for Parserfunctions, interwikis and so forth, I'm perfectly happy to wait for a talk response here. If you turn on email notification (since you are a site bureaucrat, that's in your toolkit) you can then see when pages change without using a watchlist tab. The N3V staff admin seems to have trouble changing a boolean value when given a link to the how-to, don't you know. Perhaps you can help him appear competent in that little thing. Like much of N3V's visible output, it's leaving a bad taste at the moment. Chris wants me to put up new user pages, in the Help namespace, but I'm not about to start that without further cleanup and having things straight first. I've already tagged too much using {{FAB-todo}}, and for every page there, there are three that don't have an overt tag that are dependent upon ParserFunctions.

Best regards // FrankB 09:11, 21 August 2013 (EST)