Jules Bean wrote:
Jim Burton wrote:
Very timely! It's sad that haskell-cafe has so much noise now.
I disagree with that characterisation. I don't mean to be pedantic, but I don't think haskell-cafe has lots of noise. I think it has lots of signal! Quite different.
I think you're right actually. I was exaggerating the problem due to having woken up as a bad tempered spartan.
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One way of protecting the community is to protect this list from drowning in noise and being a bit rough with newbies who don't do any research at all before asking is perfectly acceptable in my view.
I disagree with that on two separate levels:
(a) I don't think being rough with newbies is the right response. (b) I also don't think it would achieve the goal you state. Being rough with one newbie will not, in my experience, particularly prevent the next question asked by the next newbie :)
All IMHO, obviously.
Jules
You notice I said "people who do no research at all"? It might be unfriendly and counter to the way things happen here, but I think the most helpful response is to tell them to do some research. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Maintaining-the-community-tf4071917.html#a11577694 Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.