Mostly, I think it does more harm than good.> <snip>
Either way, I feel it's counter-productive.
It doesn't promote understanding or collaboration, which are the foundations
of the open source movement.
+1
I have nothing against the term itself, and have myself told people to RTFM. But when I've said that it's always in the form of giving a minimal response to the question posed, and adding "RTFM for more info / additional details" or something to that effect.
There's nothing inherently wrong with suggesting to somebody that they should do some research, or pointing them to the "how to ask smart questions" manifesto, as a friendly suggestion. But some people come across as very condescending and insulting when they start flinging that stuff around... so they add noise to the conversation, tick somebody off, and add no appreciable signal.
Note that I'm not saying anything about anybody in Tri-LUG specifically... we probably have some of those people, but I haven't seen much of that attitude here, which I find to be a good thing.
TTYL,
Phil
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