David Schwartz wrote:
>
> Believe it or not, good ideas can even come from people who can't
> code at
> all, and the ideas are just as good. Slapping these people down just ensures
> they don't contribute in the future.
>
> Now if their ideas genuinely are bad, you are more than welcome to
> slap
> them down as much as you wish. If that means they don't contribute more bad
> ideas in the future, so much the better. Heck, it even may save you the idea
> of having to explain why the bad idea is, in fact, bad.
>
> But "if it's such a good idea, why don't you code it?" doesn't fall
> into
> any of these categories. It's one of those "that's what you think" type
> arguments that serves as an excuse to ignore the merits of the other side's
> case.
Well, it would help if the people who can't code wouldn't so often
make bad suggestions and then keep trying someone else to implement
them even when the people who *can* code tells them it's a bad idea,
and they just won't take that for an answer.
--
Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS)
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