superuser.com and serverfault.com have a culture similar to what you describe. you'll still get all the "don't do that" type answers, but you'll also get the "if you really really have to do this, here's how" type as well. the nice thing about it is that it promotes competition between people to give the best possible answer.
of course, the flip side of that coin is that asks the person with the question to put a fair amount of effort into asking good questions. I don't see you having a problem with that..... -wes On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > I ask some carefully phrased questions that get various useless > answers. > > Some recent answers have been: > 1. That is an "XY Problem" > 2. Don't do that. > 3. I know how but won't tell you as someone else may read answer > and carelessly > apply it, resulting in a bollixed system. > I get a chuckle about that one as I was asking how to run > Gnome2 with root > privileges. Jessie MATE allows me to simply login as root. > 4. You are making life difficult for yourself. > *NO*, the system designers have made decisions suitable for > the mythical > "typical"(sic) user. I don't have unlimited infinitely fast > internet nor even > bleeding edge hardware. My vision isn't what is was >50 years > ago. > > Is there a mailing list or USENET forum with a culture that > assumes that: > 1. one actually meant to ask the question as stated. > 2. one is responsible enough to accept that unthinking use of > answers can have > "un-nice" effects ;/ > > I've pretty much settled on Debian, but like some features of > Slackware and Linux from Scratch. > > Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
