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On Wednesday 21 February 2007 16:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:17:45 +0000, Peter Lewis wrote: |
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> > I'm a big fan of the "there are no stupid questions, just stupid |
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> > answers" way of thinking. |
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> A job providing technical support will soon cure you of that :) |
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Ha ha, perhaps :-) |
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> More seriously, there is such a thing as a bad question, and they |
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> significantly outnumber the good. Most questions provide too little |
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> information to get a really useful answer. |
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That may well be true, but it doesn't make the question invalid - just perhaps |
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in the wrong forum. |
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> GIGO applies here as much as |
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> anywhere else. |
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Too true. I wouldn't want to encourage the asking of questions! |
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So, and I ask this as an honest question, is it generally accepted that the |
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level of technical knowledge expected on this list is higher than, say, on |
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the forums? Or the IRC channels? |
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I'm relatively new to the Gentoo community, though not to online or computing |
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communities generally, and am finding that there are a lot more unspoken |
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norms or rules than I am used to (or perhaps the seasoned members are less |
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forgiving of them being broken), which can be quite a disincentive to a |
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newcomer. |
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This is all just my opinion, of course, but I was just wondering. |
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Pete. |
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