@Dodi, your response makes me wonder why you are asking the questions if you believe you already know the answers? I presume you believe you know the answers otherwise you wouldn't be arguing with my responses (which for your information have come from technical publications and published books amongst other sources - I guess the well respected, educated authors are wrong too).

As I said, I am unable to assist you further until there is a change in your attitude. It may be beneficial to you to check over the forum etiquette again too.

I'm with you Dave. I agree too. He's not asking for real help, and just seems he wants to show off with an unwelcome "holier than thou" attitude.

Ban from forum participation for sure, unless his attitude drastically changes for the better and is willing to listen to people's advice. mad

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But I'm an old dog now, and only can hope that I'm still able to learn and remember new tricks ;-)

@bborastero,

I have been staying out of this conversation because of how irritating the responses have been, but I agree a ban is excessive at this stage. Other than spammers, as far as I know only one user has ever been banned, and he was both argumentative and incomprehensible (barely literate).

It should be easy enough to ignore him if he continues to be obnoxious in his replies. He'll either stop arguing with (correct) answers or go away on his own.

Alan

I have nearly posted many times in this thread but have always asked myself "why? It's not like it's going to do any good.", and deleted the text and moved on. Even now as I type this, I am really tempted to do the same.

Dodi, please hear what I am saying. Ez-robot support comes from its community members. They are from most walks of life and are some of the smartest people on electronics, programming, fabrication, mechanical engineering and many other fields that are helpful in building a robot. Many of them have asked questions and gotten answers from other members who are more than willing to go out of their way to help. This help is normally very quick and correct but does require that someone take time away from their own project, families or whatever it may be that they could be doing. Many of these people have faced the same issues you have and have overcome the issue. They are quick to answer with the knowledge that they have from overcoming the same issue already. This makes them very valuable to you in the attempt that you are making to overcome the same issue. Sometimes, these community members have a successful professional career in the subject and can even be called experts on the issue you are having.

Please accept the help that is offered and try to do so in a gracious manner instead of a combative or argumentative manner. If you think back to your first post, within 15 minutes or so of your original post, you had the correct answer given. For the next 6 hours you didn't accept that it was the right answer and got very frustrated and frustrated others. It was during that thread that I said to myself, there has to be a better way to help people with robots, and I decided to quit answering questions on this forum as much and move on to writing something that could be shared. What this means is that your actions in your first thread were frustrating enough to me that I have avoided this thread from your first post and the forum in general for answering questions. There are many others who have avoided this thread because of the responses you gave to the help that you were being given. There are an increasing number of members who are avoiding your questions all together.

I am in no way asking that you be banned, only that you change your ways on this forum. It will get you a lot of help with your future robot issues. This not only goes for this forum but every site on the Internet and in life in general.

Nicely put David.

For the record, I do not agree with banning members unless it's extreme circumstances. However, I will not be providing assistance to the user until a change in attitude and behaviour is noticed, I am not urging others to follow me, this is not a witch hunt. I do urge anyone else who is as frustrated and irate as I was becoming to avoid engaging in any topics with the user (any user, not limited to just Dodi) and concentrate on those areas and users which do interest you - pretty much what it says in the forum etiquette topic

Okay, maybe banning is too much of a nuclear option right now. Maybe I was a little too conservative in my opinion here. I just don't like to see people who spend their valuable time helping others played and mocked. At least the warning has been given.

This guy obviously thinks he has a superior intellect, has an ax to grind about something and can't accept when he's wrong. Either that or he's just a jerk. Most all his threads have the same feel.

@Dave Schulpius It's called Narcissism bro. I know TOO many people like this. Ugh mad