On 5/24/05, Dan Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because the data isn't accumulated over time, the damage > done by the bad data remains done. The correction is never applied.
So, this begs the question, do people using IRC understand this? If so, then the newbie swears, tries again with a new crowd, or tries 9fans and waits. If not, then they assume the software is broken or that it will not do what it asks and they give up. If I were really concerned about the quality of information on IRC, I would donate an hour a week to straightening out the locals or just roll an infobot that references the wiki and the mailing list archives and let the locals qualify the result with their own $0.02 (though possibly not USD). Otherwise, I would assume the visitors were looking for easy information and that they realize they might not walk away with answers. -Jack
