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Thomas Scharl wrote: |
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> George Prowse schrieb: |
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>> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:45:46 -0500 |
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>>> Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>>>> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>>>>> Any user who will see and respond to a question is unrepresentative |
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>>>>> of the user base in general. |
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>>>> So if ten users reply then, are all ten individually wrong too? |
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>>> |
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>>> Not my point. My point is that most Gentoo users would either not see |
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>>> the question or not respond. Those that both see the question and take |
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>>> time to respond are highly atypical. |
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>> |
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>> If you were clever enough and wanted the largest amount of answers you |
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>> would put the questions around ever communication channel gentoo has, |
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>> you would then get the opinions of the majority of users. |
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> No |
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> In best case you get answers from a larger part of that part of the user |
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> community that a) actively follow those information channels, b) want to |
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> contribute answers and probably c) have enough technical skill to |
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> express what they want to say in a useful way (not like 'bla doesn't |
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> work, fix that') and some will stay silent because they are to shy or |
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> alike. |
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> Even if you manage to get approx 10-20% of valid answer rate over all |
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> channels this still is far from beeing representative. |
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> A relevant part of the user base is surely completely 'invisible'- no |
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> matter which channels we use to publicate infos/polls/etc to. |
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> |
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> Anyways this is more of philosophical/social issue to discuss about than |
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> a technical one. |
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a) The people who don't actively follow the communication channels |
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wouldn't know what was going on so they would never notice! Duhhhh... |
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b) If people don't want to contribute in them then it is up to them. |
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People can't complain if they are given the option. |
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c) You don't need lots of technical skills to help. To be honest, that |
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is immaterial anyway, there is a huge wealth of knowlege in the forums |
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community (that is unused by Gentoo) and there are always people who |
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would explain something in plain language. |
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George |
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