RE: RE(5) Diversity, Newbies, Humility

Well, #perl isn't a help desk, which is most peoples misconception. It is a community of people who like Perl. In fact, if you simply lurk there you could learn a ton from the various conversations that happen (when they actually pertain to Perl).

It isn't a matter of a questions being asked 1000 times, but the fact that many questions are answered in the documentation that comes with Perl. You speak as though I have answered a bunch of (or any) questions with RTFM, instead of nicely pointing people to the docs (which I will not link to) or showing them a solution. So, stop appearing to be asking me to stop doing something I am not. Enough people with clue don't care for this site already and you shouldn't preech to nice, helpful, clueful folks.

Cheers,
KM

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RE: RE: RE(5) Diversity, Newbies, Humility by neshura (Chaplain) on Jun 01, 2000 at 01:13 UTC
I think your answers are actually excellent, I've already told you that before. Look, it's just a different approach -- it may seem like my post was a bit self-righteous ("just a bit?") but not every larval perl user is clone of all the others -- proto-geeks with near-infinite spare hours to pore through volumes of electronic documentation. Some people are just coming over to Perl from another language, they need to know it NOW because their livelihood might depend on them acquiring a new skill as quickly as possible. (that's just one possible scenario) Anyway, I'm not trying to start an argument, and I think you are cool and you haven't been mean to anyone that I am aware of, but I don't think a dialogue on site philosophy is terribly out of bounds. No skin off my back if the clueful give perl monks (the site OR the people) a cold shoulder, for whatever reason. Okay, I might be a little hurt, just a bit :-) I understand if you get annoyed that people treat #perl like a help desk. I'm not surprised that they do. It's not like perl has a help desk. (Sure, there's lots of self-help available). Perl Monks fills a niche, I think it's cool. So I wish you peace, love, and free beer :-) e-mail neshura	[reply]

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RE: RE: RE(5) Diversity, Newbies, Humility
by neshura (Chaplain) on Jun 01, 2000 at 01:13 UTC

Anyway, I'm not trying to start an argument, and I think you are cool and you haven't been mean to anyone that I am aware of, but I don't think a dialogue on site philosophy is terribly out of bounds. No skin off my back if the clueful give perl monks (the site OR the people) a cold shoulder, for whatever reason. Okay, I might be a little hurt, just a bit :-)

I understand if you get annoyed that people treat #perl like a help desk. I'm not surprised that they do. It's not like perl has a help desk. (Sure, there's lots of self-help available).
Perl Monks fills a niche, I think it's cool. So I wish you peace, love, and free beer :-)

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