tonypm wrote: > > Actually, I would have said that the forums were for people to get > answers, not much point asking a question if no-one is going to > provide a useful answer. > > I have found most of my questions answered by searching the forum and > looking at responses to previous questions - so that mostly I have not > had to ask the question myself. In fact I learned to use ruby on > rails that way . > > This forum used to excel in a) the quality of responses, depth and > helpfulness AND b) politeness and patience. > > Sadly these things seem to be getting eroded. It would be nice if we > could keep to being polite and user friendly and provide responses > that have useful content. Remember, if you give a helpful answer, you > haven't solved just a single user's query, you have provided > documentation for many others when the search the forum in the > future. If you can't resist saying "read the docs" or "it has been > answered in another post", then at least have the decency to point to > the post or reference with a proper link - otherwise wouldn't it just > be better to say nothing. > > I have been feeling these things for several weeks now, and my > disappointment in the rails community has been growing. This post > just tipped the balance so I felt I had to make a comment. > > with very best intentions > Tonypm
Thanks Tony! I just ignored that post since it's the opposite of helpful. Will check out your blog, Marc. Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
