Re: Should I even bother
Re: Should I even bother
- Subject: Re: Should I even bother
- From: Allan Odgaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:48:28 +0100
On 21. Mar 2004, at 22:27, Chaz McGarvey wrote:
Have I offended the list or am I just being ignored?
Perhaps you just ask hard questions? [...]
Another possibility is that you write bad subjects. I delete at least
half the messages sent to this list (w/o reading) because the subject
makes no sense or sounds like a STFW/RTFM type of question. The
subject for this thread is a good example of such a bad subject, I only
read it because it sounded so depressing...
I have already taken a karma hit for this before, but anyway, a great
article about writing subjects is here:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980906.html
Alastair (if you are listening): perhaps we could dedicate the intro of
your FAQ to writing letters for this list? I know that there already is
such a FAQ <
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> but it
is very long, targeted at non-technical people and does not touch upon
the problems I see at this list (which at least makes me skip the
question) -- I would like to volunteer writing a first draft of such a
FAQ entry if you are interested.
I only ask questions on this list after I've searched around and
just can't find an answer, and I never get any answers for my
questions either. I wish there was a email@hidden
or similar.
I am afraid that is another reason... there was a Cocoa-Pro list, but I
do not think it improved the situation much for most -- personally, if
I got a reply there, it was probably just someone misunderstanding the
question and then giving an arrogant reply.
The most successful resource for me has been the Cocoa Discussions page
at the CocoaDev wiki, see
<
http://cocoadev.com/index.pl?CocoaDiscussions>.
[...] If not, it's still unlikely that you've offended anyone. At
least I can't imagine anyone on this list would withhold information
because of a grudge.
Don't be so sure! I am almost certain that I managed to
(unintentionally) offend two people from this list, and one does indeed
seem to ignore my letters -- but I am probably special in that way ;)
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