Smileys do not change "use … whenever possible". It;s still asserting there is one correct way to contribute.
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 1:07 PM Curt Tilmes <c...@tilmes.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:56 PM Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Which doesn't change the fact that there's what amounts to an >> accessibility issue. >> >> Do you *really* want to tell some percentage of people that they must be >> willing to use the One True Web Site, or else go away because they're not >> wanted hereabouts? Because insisting all the time that "(also: ask >> questions in StackOverflow whenever possible :-) )" is doing exactly that. >> >> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:51 PM JJ Merelo <jjmer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Well, it really helps newcomers to find answers to their problems. It's >>> well indexed, and it also raises visibility of the Perl6 language. >>> >> > "must be willing", "insisting", etc. is a very different type of approach > from the gentle "whenever possible" with a smiley. > > No one is "insisting" or telling people they aren't wanted hereabouts. > > Use StackOverflow if possible (for the reasons expressed) If not (for > whatever reason, we won't pry), use perl6-users, that's ok too. > > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
