has no real choice in being the skyscraper that he is. On the other hand,
everyone has the ability to read something about the internet before going
on. But your right. Most end users are not stupid. They're lazy. They wander
into a place which is dangerous without any knowledge and get scammed,
spammed, or infected with viruses. Does not make them stupid for walking
into the net without any knowledge. Guess they'll wander into a swamp next
without a map. Or use their CPU as a coffee warmer. :)
As for responsability, it is our responsability to do our jobs. If this
includes making the internet easier for end users, then so be it. My job is
to make information available to people in order to make their job easier
and advance the use of CF. (actually, the job I get paid for is to make
sites work faster and smoother, but that's back end). The job of an end user
(in my mind) is to take 3 seconds to read some instructions, warnings or
whatever. I and about everyone else here can say at least one story about an
end user who got burnt and it was all their own fault. Just read User
Friendly and you'll see what I mean (check out the Cthulhu ones for
specifics). Yes, the stars were right for Cthulhu to eat the heads off of
some spammers. :)
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From: Irvin Gomez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 6:24 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: On stupidity & Michael Dinowitz
>From a previous post of his:
>>>Lets be honest here. Most internet users ARE stupid. There was a news
report about a cop (yes, a police officer) who tried to pick up an underaged
kid over the net (including flashing himself) AT WORK! If this isn't stupid,
I don't know what is. >>>
They are NOT stupid. It's a math thing, really. If the average height is
5'11, Shaquille O'Neal has no right to consider everyone a pigmy! We are in
the business of performing internet-related technical tasks, as programmers,
designers, developers, whatever. So, we have a much deeper understanding of
all internet-related things. That's not the case of your average user, who
just want to use a computer to perform some simple task. It's our duty to
make this possible.
This difference in technical knowledge pays our rent. Let's not forget that.
Users are NOT stupid. They are normal. Some of us (like Michael D) just know
too much...
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