> Will the same etiquette work when we start to get lots of questions from Java programmers? :)
If you mean "will we have to maintain the same etiquette?" then, sadly, yes. (And I said we were done trolling! ;) ) 2011/5/24 Tom Murphy <amin...@gmail.com> > Firstly, I would definitely like to second the group hug! I'd say best > learning community on the net, that I know of. > > On 5/24/11, Ketil Malde <ke...@malde.org> wrote: > > The point is that at face value, being rude and arrogant may drive away > > naive questions, but is much more likely to result in endless threads of > > discussions of etiquette, usually laced with ample amounts of > > hostility. This actually decreases signal to noise. > > > > Also it not only drives away the naive questions, it drives away the > > people asking them. People who might at some point become informed, > > contributing members of the community. > > It also drives away people who don't know if their question is naive > or not. When you don't want to be yelled at, you have a strong > tendency to err on the side of not asking. This slows down learning > significantly, and decreases the number of people who can answer > others' questions in the future. > > > Some people quit haskell-cafe for other (better policed?) > > forums, so perhaps we are too liberal? I hope not. > > Does anybody know how much this has happened? > > > I'm very interested in how we can maintain this amazing resource as > Haskell's user base grows. Will the same etiquette work when we start > to get lots of questions from Java programmers? :) > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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