Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
As we sit here riding the Haskell wave:
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* Give tips on how to answer questions
Answering politely, and in detail, explaining common misunderstandings is better than one word replies.
* Adopt a near-zero-tolerance "Be Nice" policy when people answer questions
We are very good here already, both on email and IRC.
Very timely! It's sad that haskell-cafe has so much noise now. I haven't been around very long at all but it has gone downhill dramatically even in the last 6 months (I think I could put a date on it but lets not get into that). As well as being nice, can't you sometimes tell people to RTFM? Or, You've asked that before, or That's an FAQ, search the archive? 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. It goes without saying that everything you say about the quality of the help here is true but I don't think you should treat us with kid gloves. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Maintaining-the-community-tf4071917.html#a11576127 Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.