Hahn, Harvey wrote:
> |BegQ?
> |Is it way of saying that my question is more important than other?
>
> I've been using "BegQ" as an abbreviated ("terse" ;) ) form of "Beginner
> Question". In a sense, it's actually a way of saying that my question
> is *LESS* important than other, more "professional" questions that
> appear here.
>
> |Otherwise the subject is well-written, and should perfectly
> |suffice the purpose without embelishment.
>
> When I first started asking "beginner" questions here, I got responses
> that were the equivalent of "RTFM" in both content and tone, which
> almost gave the impression that I shouldn't be asking my questions.
> (However, as I've stated several times, J's documentation is great for
> those in the know but leaves MUCH to be desired when it comes to
> newbies.) However, because I needed to know (and there is no other
> "live" avenue of discourse, unless someone like NYCJUG would open
> themselves to emailed beginner questions), I persisted--but chose to
> alert readers who might want to skip over my questions because these
> might be beneath their interest level or what they feel is appropriate
> for the forum. If the forum feels that "BegQ" is an unnecessary alert
> on my part, I'm perfectly happy not to use it. ;)
Harvey
It is unnecessary to qualify your question with BegQ. Beginner questions
are welcome on all the forums, and we don't try to distinguish beginner
from expert. Actually, in many cases, it would be hard to do so.
As regards any RTFM response, we do encourage responses of that form,
where we think the written material explains the point quite well.
Actually, it can be disconcerting when there is a perfectly adequate
written explanation of a point in the on-line documentation or wiki, and
then instead of a response pointing to this, we get incorrect or
incomplete answers posted in the forum.
I suggest that if you get an RTFM response that you feel does not
adequately respond to your question, you simply try again, pointing this
out.
Chris
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