I like you Paul. It is so true of what I see on forums everywhere, 90:10 S:N ratio I do however find Forums can be useful as a repository, especially when I am at someone elses computer or do not feel like searching my own email. On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > And if they're too dumb to use email, > > > what hope do they have of being able to constructively discuss wine? > > > > Being a curmudgeon, that's my own instinctive response. > > But it's possible there's a generation gap at work > > here, and people under 21 or so just don't use email > > in general. > > That's their loss. If they can't be bothered to use the proper > established channels, we shouldn't bother to change the channel to > cater to them. > > > There certainly has been a flood of newbies > > posting since we hooked up the forum. > > That's our loss. The quality of the threads has also gone down. Not > to mention the spam flood, plus that one moron who insists on > responding to every spam to tell everyone it's spam. Way to go, > there, too: A lot of us wouldn't have ever seen the spam if he hadn't > replied to it... > > > We can probably reduce the number of clueless posts > > a bit by writing an FAQ tailored to forum users, > > But being forum users, they won't read it anyway. Forum users come > with the attitude of "I'm not paying for help, but YOU FUCKING OWE ME, > DAMMIT!! I'm not going to provide any useful information about what's > wrong, you get to give me a magic fix! And it has to happen RIGHT > NOW!!111!! Do we really need them? > > -- > Paul Johnson > baloo@xxxxxxxxx > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080229/32a28625/attachment.htm
