benn,
While I fully appreciate your comments in regards to context, I disagree with your proposal. I believe the responsibility should be directed towards the posting monk.

  • I have asked similar questions here and here, but have failed to understand what was being said. Here is what I thought I knew.
  • I tried the solution provided here, but I didn't understand it and am not able to apply it to this general situation here
  • I admit, originally I didn't want to understand why, just how. I have seen the error of my ways, please enlighten me.
  • I may be wrong, but I don't believe this question deserves the generic answers because my situation is different. This is why I think it is different. If I am wrong and one of the general solutions will work, please explain it keeping in mind I am rather new at this.
  • etc, etc, etc

    Now this isn't to say that the monks at the Monastery are not willing to do the "problem profiling". I have done all the same things you are talking about. I have looked at previous writeups by the same monk, applied my knowledge of CB conversations when answering questions, etc. In fact, I learned quite a bit about OIDs recently trying to reply to a post using The Oracle and CPAN since the AM assumed all OIDs were created equal and didn't provide enough context to help.

    So while I feel context is very important and believe it should be the poster's responsibility for giving it, there will always be monks that go the extra mile. I feel that spending the time and effort in making the changes to PM will not help, but rather, re-inforce the idea that it is ok to post questions and just expect others will know what you are talking about.
    I can see it now:

    Anonymous Monk - how do I do X?
    Limbic~Region - it depends, in what context are you doing X?
    Anonymous Monk - What! You didn't profile the problem? It is obviously Y context.

    Just my thoughts - L~R

    In reply to Re: Context Indication by Limbic~Region
    in thread Context Indication by benn

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