I must admit I find a number of the posts aggravating. So much so that I stopped reading them long ago. I would support any effort to clean up the questions and clearly mark messages that are not going to be answered. Perhaps we should put together a page that clearly explains exactly what data is necessary in a question and when one is submitted without proper background repond with a "won't answer" type message that points to the specific data that are missing. This will hopefully cut down on the noise as well as give people who are trying a way to get the info they need, perhaps by rephrasing their question.
Claude On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Colin Maudry <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Jena developers, > > Upon Andy Seaborne’s suggestion, I would like to share with you a > concern we have with certain posts shared on [email protected]. > In the last couple months, we have seen certain users repeatedly sending > questions that are either: > > * hardly related to Jena and Fuseki > * very basic questions about RDF or SPARQL > * betraying the lack of common knowledge in Java programming and > coding good practice in general > > What’s worse, these users, in spite of repeated remarks, keep on being > very vague in their questions, requiring the most patient subscribers to > ask many questions just to obtain a decent understanding of the problem. > A problem that is, again, often not much related to Jena or Fuseki. > > As a subscriber, I’m tired of their consistent failure to propose clear > and concise questions and I wish the patient people who answer them > spend their mailing time on more interesting threads. I also fear it > makes certain subscribers silently go away because of this “noise”. > > I first thought of publicly complaining to these users, but I thought > that the managers of the Jena lists should discuss it and take the > appropriate measures. > > My suggestion is to: > > * inform the subscribers of an upcoming enforcement of the publishing > rules (relevance, clearness, completeness, etc.) > * stop answering the vague/off-topic/badly presented questions > * if they insist, remind them the topic of the list and good practices > in problem reporting, and warn them of a possible ban. > > Thanks for your attention, > > Colin Maudry > https://twitter.com/CMaudry > > > -- I like: Like Like - The likeliest place on the web <http://like-like.xenei.com> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/claudewarren
