>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Wan <r....@aist.go.jp> writes:
Raymond> Of course, blind leading the blind is a bad thing. But the intention Raymond> was good and the admission of not being an expert was offered at the Raymond> same time. Maybe all I'm saying is "admonish, but admonish with Raymond> restraint"; the person being admonish could be the next expert some Raymond> day...if given the chance... ;-) Unfortunately, there is voluminous evidence my level of admonishment has nearly nothing to do with the person I'm correcting, and a lot more to do with my mood of the day. I do escalate pretty quickly. If someone gets one thing wrong, I'll be curt, and say "that doesn't work, please test before you post". If I notice they do it a second time, I'll generally escalate to "you're hurting more than you're helping. test before you post." And after a third time, I bring out the cluebats. Luckily, that's pretty rare, but there *does* seem to be a class of people who think they know more than they do, consistently. And when one of those wanders into a help gathering, it can be a real pile of work for those of us who *actually* know. And I'm with Uri here... I definitely do *not* answer anything that I haven't had experience with, unless I preface my answer with "I think..." so that Smarter People(tm) can check my work. If only everyone followed that rule, life would be simpler. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
