The Usage of AddOnsFollow

Unfunny parody thread?

Fail troll is fail.

Another sub-d added to the list most likely.

Mental, the bad news is that they probably aren't trolls. An instructor at University of Denver has apparently decided to have us help his students learn to write by flooding the forum with surveys, stealth surveys ("no, really, this isn't a survey, just talk about this point") and now their reports.

I'm really hoping the admins will learn from this experience and disapprove all future class assignments of this magnitude. It is bad enough to get the regular rounds of surveys, but to be the target of an assignment for an entire class of writing students is over the top and holds little potential for the 'research' to be anything other than an annoyance.



Here's one for you: sod off and die. If you haven't noticed, we're deluged with half-witted students from University of Denver doing craptastic pseudo-science. Save money, skip to the point and learn to ask "would you like fries with that"?

With the quality of research (conducting, recording, and reporting), I'd have gone with high school at best.

What is the class on? Looking over what we've got so far there are people presenting the conclusion without any data, cherry-picking one response and implying it to be indicative of the whole, the one guy who gave his numbers puts his opinions right alongside the data turning everything into a confusing mess. These are the kinds of things I would expect to see from the start of a class before the teacher shows them how to do it properly, but unless it's a summer schedule the timeline suggests these are final projects. If that's the case then I must conclude that either the people posting them here don't care or the teacher has done a poor job teaching. Or both.

I never thought I'd become jealous of the time I spent grading Physics for non-majors (aka Physics for Poets). While I couldn't yell at the students I could at least make comments that I knew half of them would read and 25% of them would try to fix.

in other words, IM SORRY

I use add-ons, I keep em in my underwear drawer.....oh wait, you mean WoW add-ons!

I'll bite:

As primarily a healer now-a-days, I couldn't heal near as good as I can now without a heal add-on; currently I prefer healbot, but have used others. I couldn't heal without one to be honest. I'd rather play whack-a-mole and be able to see everything else than try to use what Blizzard has given us.

I use DBM cos, Hell, I don't know, everyone else uses it I think? And while healing, it's nice to hear something to tell me to move from the blue fire. I'm kind of brain dead like that.

Bagon is the single greatest addon of all time. Cos WoW's bag system sucks. Without it, I'm simply lost. After 4.1 dropped and bagon broke for the first time in years, I couldn't play. Just wasn't the same. It's my WoW heroin. I'm an addict!

Other than that, I use Healbot for my aggro meter and for DPS toons; to simply click for tank assist, misdriection, etc., etc. It comes in pretty handy.

If only 90% of players use add-ons, then there's 10% of players that are, I don't know, crazy for a lack of better words.

This probably doesn't help, but eh, bored and it's 1am. Not getting my bagon fix!

Edited, Jun 1st 2011 1:46am by Seculartwo

You don't say you're sorry by justifying your actions.

Well it is a state school. =x That's not me being elitist either, because I go to a state school as well. But I've encountered quite a few people who seem borderline brain dead. And UO requires a 3.0 high school GPA. Or at least it did when I applied 9 years ago.

One of my friends was in the Ag program here. She said that they had cows with holes in the side of em.

Though the cascade of abuse is fun and all that, a nuance jumped out at me here.

When you say "no official support", if what you mean is that third-party addons are not productized by Blizzard, and Blizzard takes zero responsibility for maintaining compatibility as they update the core game, that much is true. However, for the class of true addons - DBM, Bartender, Auctioneer - Blizzard provides a publicly published interface (LUA). And further, Blizzard explicitly states that any and all addons that use LUA are allowed. And the interface itself is evolved and changed - by Blizzard - over time.

So in a very real sense, Blizzard does provide official support for well-behaved addons. We aren't talking about shims and I-Win buttons, as those are not only bannable ToS violations, Blizzard spends great effort to hunt down and destroy non-LUA code that tries to interface with the game.

It's brilliant, IMO. Basically, not only did they outsource their UI design to unpaid labor, in addition because addon distribution is decentralized and every user chooses their own, both market forces and Darwinian forces apply fully to competition between developers. And Blizzard gets to cherry-pick among the survivors for integration into the base UI at a later date.