Hi Charles, Well, that is a rather extreme example, but yes that is one possibility. A more practical example of misinformation we would like to avoid might include the incident a couple of days back where a list member mistakenly said BGT costs $700 when in reality it costs $399. Of course, that single mistake would only merit a correction and a warning from the moderators, but it is none-the-less a straight forward case of the list member not having checked to get his facts straight before stating so on list. This part is speculation, but what if someone who was considering buying that product took that misinformation to be correct and decided not to purchase BGT believing the $700 price tag? That simple mistake would have cost one of our developers some money because of some list member not verifying his facts. Not saying it did happen, but it could happen in theory. The basic idea here is that people should be more careful about stating things as fact if they aren't sure, and we want things to be as reliable as possible.
Cheers! On 8/11/13, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote: > Like the example of someone suggestion that you reformat your hard drive due > > to a modem issue. Someone might do it, even though it obviously would not > solve the issue, and cause a lot of totally unnecessary wasted time and > work. The suggestor obviously knew nothing about the issue, because a > reformat is not always the answer. > > -- > If guns kill people, writing implements cause grammatical and spelling > errors! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
