On 8/16/06, andrew clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the other hand it may just be that I'm frustrated with inane > questions. I don't know about other people, but I'd rather have a > low-traffic mailing list with people asking questions intelligently, > than... what we seem to have now.
The signal to noise ratio is getting pretty intolerable... I am also getting unsolicited personal emails and IMs on a daily basis from people wanting 'help' on a problem they can't even adequately describe without playing the 20 questions game, or even demonstrate they truly understand the problem or have made attempts to try to solve it before asking for help. I am wondering if we need to start getting stricter on the moderation and start rejecting some of these questions. I don't want to discourage genuine people needing help (some young programmers may just be overwhelmed with a project and need a nudge in the right direction -- we had one guy last week who IMed me, was very polite and described his problem and then posted his question with all of the details and his code), but I also don't want to keep encouraging the homework shirkers either. It's obvious most new subscribers don't bother to read the list policies sent to them. -- Brett McCoy: Programmer by Day, Guitarist by Night http://www.alhazred.com http://www.cassandrasyndrome.com http://www.revelmoon.com To unsubscribe, send a blank message to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/c-prog/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
