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However, the fact that I can relate to them is not the reason I like reading those threads. I am not exactly sure which is more fun: being happy that I have gotten over several problems they will soon face or getting a kick out of the sarcastic, cruel and/or ignorant replies. Take, for example, this thread about a new search engine called www.categorysearches.com. The irony of this thread is just awesome. On the one hand, you have a new search engine that could obviously (and easily) be improved. On the other hand you have a bunch of completely useless replies, some of which are insulting. It just so happens that his search engine went down and after reading through a few comments alerting him of this fact, I read this: "Sweet search engine. I searched for `google` and i got 0 results. Hotmail 0 thong 0 I like it becuse it brings up unexpected results. When you search normally you expect a list of sites but it just brings up a block of yahoo ads. Like it,,, Its like `the alternative` search engine. Silly P**** ;)" Obviously the guy trying to develop his own search engine is silly. Its not like something as complex as a search engine could go down at unexpected and inconvenient times. I wonder if not thinking well, spelling incorrectly AND insulting the owner of the search engine will magically make the programming error go away? I didn’t see a single comment in that thread that told the guy what he could do to make his search engine better. So, even though I am fully aware he will probably never see this post, I am going to give him a list of things he could do to improve it: 1. Remove the old lady from the logo. 2. Don’t announce your search engine to people using the phrase “trick or treat” sense as you can see it leaves you wide open. 3. Don’t pretend that a better host will make your search engine perfect. I tried it and it just doesn’t work. You need more of computers all interconnected extremely well no matter how many you have. 4. Write a web crawler that can catalog a list of submitted URLs because relying on people to accurately describe their website and not try to cheat is way too much to ask. 5. Style the search results like people are used to seeing search results. Right now I feel like I am looking at a MySQL database via PhpMyAdmin... 6. Make your site more obvious than the advertisements on it. 7. Make the titles of your website shorter because your search engine has cataloged them. 8. Reword the sentence at the bottom of the front page because it is confusing. 9. Most importantly, don’t let ignorant people stop you from doing what you want. If you aren’t that great at certain things people will focus on them to feel better about themselves. If you are perfect people will bend reality, play with language and destroy logic to make sure there is at least one flaw. The lesson: don’t take people seriously, they are probably lying or genuinely believe they are telling you the truth but are incorrect anyway. Even if they are correct, their advice probably doesn’t apply to you sense there are always differences in each persons perspective and situation. |
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