--On Wednesday, August 06, 2003 06:26:34 +0000 Curt Zirzow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Thus wrote andu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):This is a very busy list, over 100 message in a quiet day and most people are helpful and decent, don't mind reading and learning. Unfortunately there are some who mostly post stuff like 'read the manual' and other shit like that. Stuffing e-mailboxes with such garbage day after day doesn't do anybody any good even if the manual is not being read as much as it should
Yes it is a busy list, I have 1000+ messages for 7 days worth.
I'm not sure the noisyness of the list is entirely on the ones that are helping. There does seem to be a problem of people posting questions that are plain as day in the manual, or have been repeatedly answered here on the list (thus the joke, has it been 4 days already, being so funny :)
Agreed.
if more people would read the manual or know how to find commonly asked and solved quetions this list would probaly drop in 20% (very rough estimate) of posts. Getting that information to the people who arn't reading the manual is a difficult task, cause if they arn't reading the manual, why would they even bother with reading the information on how to find the answer.
Now noisyness from the 'helpers'... I have noticed at times that a question is answered the same way like 10 times by 10 different people; this I consider more noisy than a RTFM post.
Agreed again.
be. Is it too difficult to not answer the post at all if you disagree with the content?
Now, I kinda wondered at first if I should not respond to this cause it's rather in a disagreement tone :)
Nevermind the tone, you have a point. My post was about people who chronically answer with an attitude (half of their posts have to do with the manual). As far as I can tell you always take the time to help, I'm surprised you picked on this.
People are sometimes lazy or simply they just don't know what to look for, to look up a function you must know the name of it, what's the big deal to reply with a function name as opposed to RTFM, you do it anyway. I'll tell you what the difference is, you are bored to death for hearing the same question for the millionth time and feel vindictive. You're shooting the messenger though. If you are at the point where you can't deal with newbies it's understandable (been there, done that), but it's not their fault.
I think this shouldn't be considered a bad thing to do. If you find something you disagree with and have (legit) arguments, I would insist that the person reply to it. Of course this only helps if it was in a constructive manor, which I hope this reply was done.
Cheers,
Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."
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