Well, not quite a fan I’d say. Rather the opposite.
I got a moderately venomous email through one of my contact forms. I’m used to it. Being a forum moderator tends to bring those on at times. Par for the course. Some kid I may have chastised for being rude and out of order. Usually happens mostly during school vacation. Regularly some swell-headed macho wannabe who thinks testosterone=brains. What I actually think of such guys is not printable.
Invariably they won’t give their actual name (duh!), they will likely use proxies thinking I cannot trace them (as if I really cared) and their level of literacy hovers around gr. 6.
The last one wasn’t quite so pathetic in his/her language skills, just in the content. So it’s somebody sufficiently mature and sufficiently schooled to have made it over the heap of restaurant dishwashers into the pile of hopefully our “skilled” labor force.
I rather suspect this person thinks so highly of him/herself, that any suggestion that he/she may have erred causes such a reaction:
From: Statcounter Visitor <bgates@microsoft.com>
Dear Ms Know-It-All,
Your work, quite frankly, is crap.
You should stop talking down your nose at fourm visitors.
Even the picture you chose for your profile shows you looking down at the viewer.
Try climbing down from your aerie and go to a shrink for a personality adjustment dear.
Merry Christmas
I suppose that by talking down my nose he/she means pointing out their own mistakes in matters about which they came for help in the first place. Or rather more likely in cases where they irately barge into the forum screaming bloody murder, this product is buggy. Never do they think for a moment they are doing something wrong themselves. No, they are experts. And when I find the bug is in their own work, they still protest. They are never wrong. This thing should go the way they imagined it, not the way it actually does.
Oh, well. Can’t win them all. Not even close.
