In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, g_daubach wrote:

[quote="william chan"]Dear Guenther,

I don't know why you start talking about "motivation" which was never the topic of our discussion.
You don't need to research and list all my comments on the forum.  I know what I said, and still stand by them.

If my comments on the forum sounds more like a chinese businessman than a hobbyist, 
its because I am a chinese businessman.[/quote]

Dear William,
so far, I had no experience, how comments from a chinese businessman sound - I think I've learned it now :-) .

Let me try to make my comments from a "German engineer" concerning "Motivation" a bit more precise:

I think you agree with me that this forum is a source of a lot of valuable information. Provided meaningful questions for help are posted, it usually is a matter of only a couple of hours until at least a "first aid" is given by a forum member. As long as the answer comes from the Parallax staff, you might say: "As they are Parallax employees, it's their job to provide such support". This may be true for a couple of their staff members having a support job in the company, as you can find it in the support sections of other organizations. Other than that - in the Parallax forum, you can find support posts from staff members (even including the "Boss") who usually should dedicate their valuable time for other tasks than this. The only reason I can imagine why they do it anyway is that they feel commited to their company, the team, and the products they handle, and to the audience they meet in this forum. 

Besides this, I think you may also agree with me that there are many other forum members - not on the Parallax payroll - who are regularly contributing valuable help and information to other forum members. Did you ever ask yourself why the hell, these people are cazy enough spending their valuable time answering (sometimes silly, or "un-Googled") questions, analyzing hundreds of program code lines, writing sample code, searching the internet for the benefit of others? My only explanation for this behavior is that these people feel being part of a community (maybe family) of think-alikes.

In my opinion, this all happens because people feel "motivated", which brings me back to the topic which was not part of our discussion before, but I felt free to address it. Motivation usually is generated when you get a positive feedback, like "thank you", "wow - your hint saved me the day", etc. 

At least, this is what made and makes me feel "motivated", where - on the other hand - pinpricking comments (no matter if they are addressed to me directly, or to "my" community) make me really feel p...ed off or "un-motivated".

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