2014-09-28, 03:02
Do not forget the ridiculous ammount of time people just post broad questions to non-related threads...video addons being one of them. Of course the messages will most likely be ignored as they can't even reach its target. Not to mention also the non-clear "code questions", full of secrets and with zero details about what the author wants to do. Even if you want to help, you just feel frustrated and you will ignore those after a few "helping attempts".
Also, note that if you help someone and the post count of that user is somehow low, your answer is normally just ignored. Nor even a "thank you"...so why spending your time and knowledge in the first place? XBMC is pretty well documented, users should do their homework before placing questions.
IMHO, people just live surrounded by comercial products and services that "just work". If they don't (as they are consumer goods/services) there is always someone on the other end of the line getting payed to help you or to sort out your own problems. xbmc is not a commercial product, it has no warranty, no one receives anything to make it or to help out on foruns/boards. Just a few understand this (and open-source in general).
Xbmc has also grown a lot, it "moved" from a piece of software that used to run on the original xbox (so a very narrow community of enthusiasts) to a piece of software than runs on about every single major platform. And with those platforms...come their users.
This leads to the generalization nickr (very well) made. I would however divide the rpi users in two groups. The first one being the techy group (they bought a pi because it is a geeky toy and are normally willing to learn the hard way) and the other being those who bought the pi because it was the cheapest pc they could get. People on this last group normally don't have any idea of the rpi specs and think they have a 35 pounds ferrari.
Also, note that if you help someone and the post count of that user is somehow low, your answer is normally just ignored. Nor even a "thank you"...so why spending your time and knowledge in the first place? XBMC is pretty well documented, users should do their homework before placing questions.
IMHO, people just live surrounded by comercial products and services that "just work". If they don't (as they are consumer goods/services) there is always someone on the other end of the line getting payed to help you or to sort out your own problems. xbmc is not a commercial product, it has no warranty, no one receives anything to make it or to help out on foruns/boards. Just a few understand this (and open-source in general).
Xbmc has also grown a lot, it "moved" from a piece of software that used to run on the original xbox (so a very narrow community of enthusiasts) to a piece of software than runs on about every single major platform. And with those platforms...come their users.
This leads to the generalization nickr (very well) made. I would however divide the rpi users in two groups. The first one being the techy group (they bought a pi because it is a geeky toy and are normally willing to learn the hard way) and the other being those who bought the pi because it was the cheapest pc they could get. People on this last group normally don't have any idea of the rpi specs and think they have a 35 pounds ferrari.