Saluton Gene :) Gene Kwiecinski <[email protected]> skribis: > Hell, if only Chip, Tony, Tim, and a few other prolific "answerers" > would adopt that as their own policy, to ignore TPers, that would > probably take care of about 80% of possible replies. :D
That's true XDDDDDDDDDDD >>>I just don't have the time/patience/desire to be annoyed. Some >>>people sign up to the list to learn things (as I did), to ask >>>questions (fine, but follow the conventions of the list), and even to >>>help others by answering their questions. The last is an act of >>>generosity. > >>Right. It is giving your free time away to others, and time is very >>valuable. Most top-posters I know use that style because it is faster. > > I do try to return the favor when someone would help me out with one > issue or another, so I don't mind. I don't go crazy with scripting, > etc., so those questions are out of my league, and I don't use > 'netrw', 'cygwin', etc., so those questions I can't answer, either, > but if somoene asks how to turn ABC into XYZ and such, other things > I've played around with, yeah, I'll jump in and help. Just don't make > the query post and replies painful to read, or I'll just skip past > them. That's the key: time is limited even when you only reply to a subset of the messages and that subset is extremely small. As you, most of the doubts posted in the list are definitely out of my league, but I try my best to help whenever I can. This said, I don't have lots of spare time, so I can lose time trying to make sense of a topposted thread or things like that. > It's almost exactly the equivalent situation. People who want/need > help make zero attempt to make things easier for the person who's to > help them. It's a bit worse than the example you gave, since the tech guy is doing a paid job and some clueless people may think he is paid to do their laundry. In this case, Vim is for free, help is for free, so making things easier for the people that will help you is a must, IMHO. But, enough venting for me XD -- Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
