I have personal biases that make me tend to post here before I will post to a newsgroup in general. First off I like the community feel here at Perl Monks a lot more than what I experience in a newsgroup.

Don't get me wrong. I have long been a denizen of USENET as it was once called. I also belong to several email lists one of which is specifically a list oriented to beginners to Perl.

The flood of newbies (and I blame AOL and WebTV among others for this) and the unfavorable signal to noise ration have dulled my desire to participate in USENET newsgroups any more. I still do, but less frequently than I used to.

Now: when to post in general.

Before I post to any forum I ask myself these general questions:

Once I have answered those questions I then make a decision to post or not to post and where.

The beauty of having mutiple places to post though is the variety of answers you have the potential of geting. So if I can't get an answer or solution here, I might post elsewhere.

Having said that though I must say that one of the things that has kept me here is the fact that historically I have gotten answers to my own questions more frequently and better quality answers. I think the reason the quality of the anwers here is better is the fact that there is a peer review that happens to every post on this website. Something that USENET doesn't have the facility for other than flaming folks. All flaming does is drive people away and not necessarily the folks being flamed either. I know that if I see too many flame wars happening in a particular forum (such as I used to see in an animal behavior forum I used to participate in) I tend to shy away. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

So, post away and see if I'm not right in the long run.

In reply to Re: When to Post Here? When Elsewhere? by blue_cowdawg
in thread When to Post Here? When Elsewhere? by jkeenan1

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