> Forums are here for people to ask questions. > > Now you look like a douche every time someone searches for free RoR > hosting. >
Actually, I would have said that the forums were for people to get answers, not much point asking a question if no-one is going to provide a useful answer. I have found most of my questions answered by searching the forum and looking at responses to previous questions - so that mostly I have not had to ask the question myself. In fact I learned to use ruby on rails that way . This forum used to excel in a) the quality of responses, depth and helpfulness AND b) politeness and patience. Sadly these things seem to be getting eroded. It would be nice if we could keep to being polite and user friendly and provide responses that have useful content. Remember, if you give a helpful answer, you haven't solved just a single user's query, you have provided documentation for many others when the search the forum in the future. If you can't resist saying "read the docs" or "it has been answered in another post", then at least have the decency to point to the post or reference with a proper link - otherwise wouldn't it just be better to say nothing. I have been feeling these things for several weeks now, and my disappointment in the rails community has been growing. This post just tipped the balance so I felt I had to make a comment. with very best intentions Tonypm -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
