Re: Stop neurotic posting

what a silly elitist view you have > perhaps there should be two lists (novice and advanced), and the > advanced listed shouldn't > answer questions if it's considered trivial enough for the novice list > to answer. > > > > Curt Zirzow wrote: > >>* Thus wrote andu (php@archeopterix.com): >> >> >>>This is a very busy list, over 100 message in a quiet day and most >>>people are helpful and decent, don't mind reading and learning. >>>Unfortunately there are some who mostly post stuff like 'read the >>>manual' and other shit like that. Stuffing e-mailboxes with such >>>garbage day after day doesn't do anybody any good even if the manual >>>is not being read as much as it should >>> >>> >> >> >>Yes it is a busy list, I have 1000+ messages for 7 days worth. >> >>I'm not sure the noisyness of the list is entirely on the ones that are >>helping. There does seem to be a problem of people posting >>questions that are plain as day in the manual, or have been >>repeatedly answered here on the list (thus the joke, has it been 4 days >>already, being so funny :) >> >>if more people would read the manual or know how to find commonly asked >>and solved quetions this list would probaly drop in 20% (very rough >>estimate) of posts. Getting that information to the people who arn't >>reading the manual is a difficult task, cause if they >>arn't reading the manual, why would they even bother with reading the >>information on how to find the answer. >> >>Now noisyness from the 'helpers'... I have noticed at times that a >>question is answered the same way like 10 times by 10 different >>people; this I consider more noisy than a RTFM post. >> >> >> >> >>>be. Is it too difficult to not answer the post at all if you disagree >>>with the content? >>> >>> >> >>Now, I kinda wondered at first if I should not respond to this >>cause it's rather in a disagreement tone :) >> >>I think this shouldn't be considered a bad thing to do. If you >>find something you disagree with and have (legit) arguments, I >>would insist that the person reply to it. Of course this only helps if >>it was in a constructive manor, which I hope this reply was >>done. >> >> >>Cheers, >> >>Curt >> >> > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php