Andy Powell wrote:
On Friday 20 July 2007 17:35, Jonathon Suggs wrote:
IRC and mailing lists have their uses, but so do forums. I honestly
don't understand the resistance to the idea of a forum. Other than
people being so closed minded and elitist that they can't understand how
people are soo stupid not to have know the answer to the question already.
At what point did I actually say *anything* against forums? Please, show me. A
question was asked and I made a suggestion - just because you don't like it
doesn't mean others weren't aware of it as an option or whatever.
So if anything, hopefully those people (who are the people who give FOSS
a bad rep) will stick to IRC and mailing lists, and people that can
actually perform social interaction can help people out in the forums.
Wait, did you just insult everyone who uses irc / mailing lists. Good move.
You just failed 'social interaction 101'
Andy
Ok, before this turns into an argument, I was not referring directly to
you. Very sorry for not stating that explicitly.
As far as insulting people, I do not mean to offend. However, you can't
honestly think that the general consensus of the FOSS "help groups" is
positive, do you? There is a time and a place for RTFM to be a legit
response, but 9 times out of 10, it is someone asking a simple question
that they don't know the answer to, and someone doesn't take the extra
few seconds to give a link or reference instead of belittling them.
So my point is to keep the mailing list technical, but offer forums for
those who are less-technical and are inevitably going to ask "stupid"
questions.
-Jonathon
P.S. I did not fail, social interaction 101. But you are certainly up
for the jumps to conclusions award for 2007
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