Given the continued ingratitude of the forum’s administrative staff, I will stop.
Did it cost so much to admit that, even if in good faith, the moderator had been wrong?
Someone will finally celebrate this event and be happy (is not one allusion for the administrative staff).
I feel sorry for the others, but they will no longer be able to count on my help.
Small note: unlike others who have already left in recent days, I will not delete any of my contributions on the forum.
As already written in another post, in another now deleted topic, I am too “fond” of the scripts I create to destroy them unnecessarily.
Surely there is someone who can get inspiration from it, or come in handy to someone.
We will miss your very good scripts (especially your functions) thanks to them I have been able to learn a little more every day.
Thanks for your contribution to the Mikrotik universe.
This truly is horrible. Between Anav and now Rex. This is a death blow basically to the forums for me. I can’t count how many times searches on google land me 8 times out of 10 to a solution or insight that swiftly lands me to a solution that came from either one of these two.
Anav specifically with me was patient and has helped me learn and have confidence to just dive deeper into the networking space.
70% of my scripts I use on a weekly basis can be linked back to Rex as well.
Bad, bad news that so much knowledge is wasted and all these “feeling insulted” lost possibility to draw fully from the free sources of technical wisdom.
What you write is not true, and by deleting the posts, as you have already done, you erase the evidence.
You deleted my reply post, it was the first: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/forum-rules/173010/1
I hope at least someone else has read it and remembers it.
It said that I agreed, as long as mistakes made in the past were not again held against me.
Then I get a warning from a moderator for this post: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/warning-routeros-v7-10-will-break-all-scripts-based-on-system-clock-get-date-or-other-date-s/166576/1
The answer is from 2023-12-02 and as everyone can clearly see it is a “bump” not an edit, so the content already existed last year.
(The bump is for the topic, not for the post, obviously)
I understand that the moderator may have been confused with the dates,
but I have advised several times that normal users cannot read the warnings, or even know which post they refer to.
So it was the case, before issuing the warning, to advise the user that that post was not good, and why.
Then anyone can judge whether there are swear words in this advice.
Instead of blindly copying and pasting, try to understand what that command is for and why it was used that way.
Sorry, off topic, but in support of @Rextended and @Anav: they have invested incredible amounts of time and energy into this forum. Yes their tone is sometimes harsh, but the value they have created for MT should be very much appreciated by MT!
The reason why I havent given up on MT devices is these treasure troves of articles they (and of course also others) have created.
I am a home user, can´t afford consultants and I don´t have the time and budget to take courses in Latvia. The MT docs are somewhat improving, but learning from them is no easy task!
So their posts fill in a gap, a big one.
This is because rextended, you never learn. What is happening here again? You start anotherr offtopic with all the complaining.
And I have to delete this post too, since it is off topic.
@rextended
UNcalled for comment:
once said that your leaving the forum will deprive it from an exceptionally good source of knowledge about scripting (and not only) and that users (particularly new members like myself) will miss you, maybe you could reconsider your decision, if it is based only on this single warning.
You of course may have all the reasons in the world to take this decision, but this one - at least seen from the outside - seems not serious enough as a reason, it is not like you have been suspended/banned, it is only a warning.
I can understand how you feel that it is not appropriate/justified, or that it was delivered improperly, but it is not (should not be) the end of the world, it is like (it happened to me quite a few times) when at school the teacher gives you a vote that you find too low for the amount of work/study you did, it’s not that you abandon the school or later, on a job, a manager gives you a scolding for some trifling matters and you resign just for that.
I haven’t visited the forum for a long time… I recently read this off-topic…
This is what I would like to say:
Dear Rex! We don’t know the true reasons for your decision to stop writing scripts… If it’s really some kind of resentment, the offended pride of a talented person or something like that - spit on it all and come back! If anyone cares about my opinion, I think that you are a true talent.
And you have proven this many times, although it is not easy for most of us to even follow your thought expressed in script code…
I also think that all your students on this forum think so, and perhaps not only here… No matter what happens in the world, no matter what happens and in what era, the true value of a master is not even in creating masterpieces, but in creating followers who will follow you… But you can still do a lot for “living” people (while GPT is far from you!) and we all need you and love you with all your advantages and disadvantages (we are all people). And you should not have any regard for the opinion of the forum administration.
Believe me, I am writing this not because I need something from you, but because I respect you and was really happy to have the opportunity to communicate with you not only as a programmer, but also as a very smart person…
I hope that the automatic translator did not distort the meaning of what I wanted to say…
If the reasons for your decision are different, and in any case, we all respect you and will accept your decision, no matter how sad it may be for everyone. But I would really like to hope that someday you will return!
Sertik, most of the angst caused is a cumulative thing. When like rextended, one has answered, day in day out, post after post that has zero quality control its very hard to remain patient and one justs gets to the point directly!! ( you have heard of RSI (injury)). Over the years, having been involved in requirements and validation of problems, its clear that a first post process would be an easy and effective solution to help ensure the best experience for a new poster ( who would get answers and support more quickly ) and provide those supporting, day in and day out, useful posts with which to apply limited time and energy.
It is ironic that MT staff simply wish us to have some consideration for first time posters, WHILE I am suggesting
a. provide first time posters a positive experience ( we have the same goals ultimately )
b. show some consideration to those providing support. ( often the same people that are beta testing your products gratis )
Since a, b, would take some effort, its seemingly not on the RADAR… No progress or forward thinking or effort or seeming lack of common sense, leads some to say what is the point… When few on the footy team are doing all the running around and the owner of the team says nope we dont need a goalie, just play better defense… I’m just saying we need a goalie!
Also ironic, is that you can bet your bottom dollar that MT has processes for all the work they do in-house, for budgeting, product forecasting, analytics, software coding, software testing, HR and hiring and firing etc… Its how the world operates…
While it got the wine… but c’mon, dutch impressionist art. And two door handles, although you are a security conscience guy. Always something wrong with these LLMs .
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