2010/10/8 Jesús M. Navarro <jesus.nava...@undominio.net>: > Hi Tshepang: > > On Thursday 07 October 2010 19:02:39 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 18:13, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > [...] > >> >> You ask a question, and someone answers. If you find the answer >> useful, you vote it as correct, and the answerer gets points for that. >> You also get email notifications if you so wish if you got a new >> answer. Go have a look and see (ask.debian.net). It's quite a good >> idea. > > That's knowledge by consensus. How it deals with nonsenses? > > I.e.: > Q: I downloaded a script from the Internet and I can't execute it. > A: cd ~ && chmod -R a+x > > Hey, it works! I think I should mod up this guy. > > It's not a theoretical scenario: I visit Ubuntu forums from time to time and > there's an ashtounding number of answers in the line of my previous example.
And how does a mailing list get rid of that problem? Is it because there's more experts there? By the way, moderators exist to reduce such problems, and DPL is one of them. -- blog: http://tshepang.tumblr.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=aryabfn+vqfiiqhxe+yxxd_hzuedyjikfa...@mail.gmail.com
