On 1/25/2006 11:28 PM Peter Flodin wrote:
Yes it does sound arrogant...:-) reminds me of the quote: "Everyone you meet knows something you don't. Learn from them"
Do you know where that is from? Would be a good signature ;-)
I dispute that it is of no use, the sharing of information and experience is sometimes all that is required.
I agree that newbies can help each other, as everybody knows some parts of information the other one doesnt. But if there is no "moderation" or guidance, a forum wont work I guess. IOW: You need some interested people to take the job of guiding the users and helping to keep up the niveau of such a forum.
Sure the web forum may not have programmers and suse staff answering questions, but the number of SUSE experts is not fixed, and I believe a web forum is one part of a newbies journey away from newbieness...towards your definition of "good".
Of course a newbie will (hopefully) learn and get a guru (not pascal ;-) ) once, but therefore he needs people helping him, and information he can read through and try out himself.
ps. Why are the biggest critics of a web forum, people who would never use it?
Good point. ;-) I am not trying to keep suse from building up a forum, Im just trying to get every thought about it thought, from considering how many moderators you will need, to how it is integrated in the momentarily environment without splitting. OJ -- 'Are you Death?' ... IT'S THE SCYTHE, ISN'T IT? PEOPLE ALWAYS NOTICE THE SCYTHE. (Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant)