> > So, for the final time, I was trying to **avoid** Person B going mental by
> rephrasing
> > the question they asked as the answer seemed to miss the point of the question *or*
> > Person A was being deliberately rude.
>
> Don't you think that it would have been easier if Person B had just given Person A
> what they wanted? It was _obvious_ what they wanted. They could have offered more,
> rather than question whether Person A had a clue what they were talking about.
>
> I'm sure that after making the shaders not just output black with default settings,
> Person A would have taken bug reports if the images were wrong with different
> settings.
>
> You can't judge Person A badly while enabling Person B, it's discriminatory.
'discriminatory' and 'enabling' ... of course.
Person B was asking an intelligent question, in order to try and possibly supply better details. Anybody familiar with basic testing procedures would have asked the same question.
Instead of responding to the question asked (which can be paraphrased "what should be provided in the case of variable parameters") the question was ignored and the reply "If you don't know what it means, I don't know what to tell you" was given. That is not helpful and not how you treat somebody who is trying to ascertain details in order to provide you with better data.
So yes, Person A will be judged badly in that case, especially given their history, a history they've done nothing to dispel with the way they've reacted to this.
Person B will be judged badly (but IMHO not as badly) due to the unnecessary response that came afterwards, however since it was incited by the actions of Person A, it is them I will judge badly in this situation as the whole thing could have been avoided just by answering the question properly.
The whole thing could have been avoided if the initial answer had been more along the lines of "For cases with a single parameter ensure there are 3 data points (lowest, middle, highest) and in cases where there is no specified minimum / maximum value, using values which seem sensible for the shader. In every case record the values used. If there are multiple parameters provide a selection of datapoints then attempt to isolate the effect of each one by only changing one at a time." I was trying to prompt a response along those lines that would answer the actual question without stepping on toes by outright telling the person to do that (had I, no doubt things would have escalated for that reason instead due to one of the people involved)
Intelligent people are going to ask questions like that if they feel the original request was a bit vague for cases they feel they're likely to encounter rather than risk providing inappropriate data by taking matters into their own hands.
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