Am Freitag, 21. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 9/21/2012 10:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > Stan, just my personal opinion but I think there's no need (and no > > gain) to say this on the list. We all can think whatever we want > > -and we can be wrong or right as we don't have all the details over > > the table- but it's rather discourteous to tell a user about what > > you estimate his/her skills are or aren't. That's simply out of > > place. > > I disagree. This list, as with most others, is not to be used as a > primary technical support resource. People should be making at least a > cursory effort to search for information before asking here.
Stan, I agree on this. I consider it disrespectful if someone asks me without having made any effort to solve the question by some quick search or so. And I also tell people this. Why? Cause I do not like being treated like a unpaid community Debian / Linux support slave. (Yes, sometimes I felt like that, but then thats also my own problem, cause if I do not like to answer, I can simply ignore the question and be done with it.) But all this said: I think there are less hurtful ways to express that. And here, a short answer with a clear request to do some own research next time, takes less time than a personal attack and dealing with its consequences. When I learned one thing in mailing lists, its that I better stay away from any sort of attacking a person. I try look at the behavior, not the person. Cause I would not like to be attacked either. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209231509.51040.mar...@lichtvoll.de
