On Wednesday 21 February 2007 16:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:17:45 +0000, Peter Lewis wrote: > > I'm a big fan of the "there are no stupid questions, just stupid > > answers" way of thinking. > > A job providing technical support will soon cure you of that :)
Ha ha, perhaps :-) > More seriously, there is such a thing as a bad question, and they > significantly outnumber the good. Most questions provide too little > information to get a really useful answer. That may well be true, but it doesn't make the question invalid - just perhaps in the wrong forum. > GIGO applies here as much as > anywhere else. Too true. I wouldn't want to encourage the asking of questions! So, and I ask this as an honest question, is it generally accepted that the level of technical knowledge expected on this list is higher than, say, on the forums? Or the IRC channels? I'm relatively new to the Gentoo community, though not to online or computing communities generally, and am finding that there are a lot more unspoken norms or rules than I am used to (or perhaps the seasoned members are less forgiving of them being broken), which can be quite a disincentive to a newcomer. This is all just my opinion, of course, but I was just wondering. Pete. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
