2012/6/4 Marja van Waes <[email protected]>: > On 04-06-12 04:46, Doug Laidlaw wrote: > >>> >> >> You can add one if you wish. Just right-click on the desktop and >> follow the pop-up menu. Better still, get an account. Both you and >> Maxci write as if you will be users, not contributors. >> > > You have to be a user before you can contribute ;) > > Anyway: Maxci is already a contributor who has done wonderful work in > translating the help texts for installer, in coming with briliant ideas and > in many other ways. > > Any user can help in the forum. There is no need to be able to answer every > question, not even a need to be able to answer half of them. > > Even if you know the answer to only one out of 100 questions: if you answer > that one, it already helps. > > Also, it helps if you ask someone who, e.g., complains that he can't mail, > without telling more, like which e-mail client he uses and whether he sees > any error messages, to give more details. Or if you ask someone who replies > that his problem is solved, to put [SOLVED] at the beginning of the title of > his thread.
Actually it is the concept of the forum: "Each user is also a helper because each user knows at least something another user may ask. In this forum there is no 'they & us', it is only 'us'." Certainly some users know more than others. Certainly a new user's level of knowledge is quite low. But as certainly this should not keep you away from helping other users if you know the answer or a way to get the answer. There is no need to have a position or reputation before you can help. There is no need to be a member of a "team of helpers" before you can help. There is no need to apply anywhere before you can help. Just do it! -- wobo Just do it.
