Re: inappropriate questions [tables]
Re: inappropriate questions [tables]
- Subject: Re: inappropriate questions [tables]
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 09:52:21 -0700
On 26 May '08, at 5:14 AM, Sachin Kumar wrote:
I feel your response to this question is not appropriate and please do
not discourage the developers to post questions by mailing lists.
Your mail
makes the beginner to hesitate regarding further queries. I do
accept that
the question is improper, but let us make them to rewrite the
question in
detail.
No, Andrew's reply was appropriate. The OP was asking a uselessly
vague question, which could only be answered by writing a lengthy
tutorial article or by spending three or four emails extracting the
details of the situation, either of which is a waste of people's time.
We are here in the mailing lists to resolve their issues if possible
and encourage the developers but not to criticize them.
Speak for yourself. Looking through the archives, I don't see a single
example of you resolving anyone's issues or encouraging other
developers. You've just been posting exactly the same kinds of
incredibly vague questions [1] that you now describe as "improper".
What gives you the right to lecture to someone like Andrew who's
actually been answering people's questions[2]?
Here's an example [3]:
FROM : Sachin Kumar Tulla
DATE : Tue Aug 28 09:33:47 2007
Hi all,
How to create HyperText in cocoa applications? if possible sample
code please.
Thanks in advance.
That's not a question to ask a mailing list; it's a request for
consulting services, where someone would charge you hundreds of
dollars an hour to work out the details of what you need and design a
solution for you. Expecting to get that sort of service from us for
free is what's inappropriate.
There's nothing wrong with being a newbie; I've been in that situation
myself, and I still am sometimes when I learn a new technology. I like
helping people, which is why I'm here, and I think the record shows
that I give a lot of good advice.
What really annoys me is when people who have obviously just been told
by their boss to "go write this as a Cocoa app", instead of taking a
week or two (or three) to learn the technology, immediately run to the
mailing lists to teach them Cocoa programming and design their code
for them.
—Jens
[1] http://www.cocoabuilder.com/search/archive/cocoa?words="sachin+kumar"
[2] http://www.cocoabuilder.com/search/archive/cocoa?words="Andrew+Farmer"
[3] http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2007/8/28/188404
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