On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:28:32PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
> I don't have problems with the general back-and-forth approach. It's
> the overall attitude of the discussion that bothered me: the
> implication that Jason was just too lazy or incompetant to kludge up a
> patch or a parser.
>
> In short, we should have handled this as if we had respect for the
> person to whom we were replying, not like we're gods tossing the
> mortals occasional gems of wisdom.
>
> -Dave
I have to agree with Dave here -- this list has become 99% useless junk over
the last six months (it was only around 90% before that). It used to be that
we'd have interesting discussions on here -- sometimes prompted by newbies,
sometimes prompted by veterans. People who posted FAQ's were ignored or
pointed to relevant documentation.
Today, instead of ignoring the clueless, or pointing them to the
documentation, people insult them and then have 100-message flamewars about
"list attitude" etc. Not only that, but _all_ newbies are automatically
treated as if they are clueless, even if they clearly know what they are
doing. People who post relevant, interesting questions, instead of inspiring
long, valuable, technical discussions, are told to "just write a patch and
stop bothering us."
What happened?
--Adam
