On Thursday 23 August 2007 09:19:15 Charlie Seaman wrote: > > I wish everyone giving answers to easy to find questions would > > always and only tell the lazy people how to find the answer and > > not tell them where it is or what the answer is. > > > > This would get people to start learning to find their answers > > and only ask when they have not been able to find the answer. > > > > This is the only list I know of that continues to encourage > > lazy people to stay lazy. > > I don't necessarily think the people are lazy, just confused, > anxious, or scared and not necessarily thinking well. By > pointing them to where they can find the answer it gives them > some control and that helps them be able to think better the next > time.
I agree with most of what you say, but the people are lazy most of the time. Also there are a lot of people that answer questions on this list that have been answered 100s of times and they just keep on answering them instead of telling the lazy person asking the question that they will find it by searching the website. Often times some one will ask a question and within 24 hours 4 or 5 people will give them the same answer. The traffic on this site would drop drastically if people would search the archives and the people giving the answers would answering FAQs. Most of the mail on this list goes right in the trash because it is repeats. -- http://24.197.142.167/ See the OpenOffice.org FAQ Microsoft users go to http://www.pclinuxos.com for a great user friendly Linux experience! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
