That's the point. I do post what I did and why I don't want to do that or it didn't work. If someone were to say "I have done this quite a bit before and Method a you mentioned has always worked much better than..... because....", that would be great. But for a poster to just put "I use method a", or even "you should use method b" with no supporting information is of no use to anyone.

I am not condeming anyone, I'm sure if one were to go back through some of my posts they would find some pretty stupid things I have written. I just think that if you are going to post it should be beneficial to the readers. So if one were to say "I use method a", it should be followed up with their reason / opinion why that method has worked for them. Other readers (or even the poster) may not inherently know why they did what they did.

In reply to Re: Re: My little rant..... by gnu@perl
in thread Please read nodes carefully before replying by gnu@perl

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