"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...
You seem to be under the impression this newsgroup is all about real, practical solutions. It's not, sometimes ideas are just as important. Even though they may not be practical, the ideas may spark other ideas. Anyway, anyone doing a practical design which they need to work should be able to work out for themselves whether it will or not, otherwise they are blindly copying someone else's design from someone who hasn't signed a contract and is therefore can't be sued if it doean't work, and hoping for the best.
Let me tell you something. You plaster your company name all over this newsgroup. What do you think a prospective new customer, or even an existing customer, of yours will make of you sniping at others so often if they read these posts? They are very likely to do some searching before commiting to doing business with a new designer, after all it can be somewhat risky, they will want to protect themselves by finding out as much as they can about you beforehand.
Well here are a few things they might think. Maybe they'll think you seem to be extremely egotistical in that you want people to fully specify the problem, and complain when they don't, and for it to be you who suggest a practical impelentation. Maybe they think you are hooked on needing the praise and aclaim that it gives you. Maybe they'll think you obviously see others who post incomplete circuits or just ideas as some kind of threat, or somewhat inferior. Maybe they'll think you are unstable, that your are stressed because business is failing, that you might not be around to complete the project they want you to do. Maybe they might think you're just going senile and are frustrated that you might be losing it and that's why you need to keep proving yourself all the time.
None of the above will leave them with a positive impression of someone they are thinking of doing business with. I'm not suggesting for a second that any of this is true. It actually doesn't matter whether any of those things are true, or even if they are close to the truth, it's the impression to your customers that counts.
These posts remain in search engines much longer than the newsfeeds hold current threads. They appear as mirrors on web pages. Maybe one day your business needs a big customer to survive and they read this, and decide to check on all your other previous posts just to be sure, and then come to one of the above conclusions and reject you as a result.
So, I have nothing against you as such, but I do think this sniping will damage your business, and you personally, if it carries on. Take a step back, do some meditation or get some therapy or do whatever you have to do, and think about the potential harm this behaviour is doing. Seriously, this will definitely be harming your business one way or the other.
Mark