Years ago (around 2006) MooTools had a forum hosted on mootools.net. This forum was originally for people to talk about building the framework as the framework was still in beta. The people talking there were mostly experienced JS developers. As the framework grew more popular, users started showing up asking for help *using *the framework. On a daily basis we'd get posts to the effect that "Accordion doesn't work" from JS novices. At first these people were helped but over time a few members grew exasperated and where less than helpful. As this problem grew worse we moved the forums to Google groups, moved the developer discussions to a different forum, and things generally improved. When Piotr built jsfiddle for the community, things got exponentially more friendly, as now the response to "Accordion doesn't work" isn't "it does, you're just doing it wrong" is "show me on jsfiddle and I'll help you fix it." That early 2006-ish reputation is the one that persists, despite all the friendly people here. I don't think I've had to moderate a single comment on these boards in the last 4 years or more.
-a On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Philip Thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Aaron Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Simply be better than everyone else.... =D >>> >> >> lulz. the irony. >> > > Actually, I'm more curious, "who/what community" says that Mootoolers are > snobs? > > ~Philip > > -- > http://lonestarlightandsound.com/ >
