On Monday 21 November 2011 16:25:54 Graham Anderson wrote:
On Monday 21 Nov 2011 01:41:24 Bruce Ferrell wrote:
What I've noted is a tendency to short, less informative answers, a tendency to react defensively, deny or debate reports of difficulties and just a general level of snarkiness. I don't think the list has seen a massive influx of windows converts (who, even if we want to, shouldn't be treated like idiots), I could be wrong. This isn't a "them" and "us" situation. Please, lets try not to turn it into one. I for one, even if I don't write patches, do contribute by doing bug reports, buying the boxed set and doing all I can to promote Suse in my workplace. Even if these contributions aren't globally visible and well known, what does it hurt to ask a question or two if you didn't get enough information to help, or just not answer at all if all you can respond with is a nasty RTFM.
Here's a suggestion. Don't suddenly turn on people who are trying to help you and accuse them of playing games and starting a pissing contest becuase _you_ screwed something up. Quite frankely if people were being "snarky" with you, it's because you were being a wanker.
That totaly depends on the type of initial reply you get and first replys i have seen recently would get a thup on the nose from me in a face to face situation because they are completely uncalled for and out of line with the question being asked , I have seen very few helpfull first second or third replys to peoples problems for quite a long time now more in the way of you are wrong cus i said you are wrong not good at all . That is why i am still on 11.3 i have looked at 12.1 had problems tried to get help got a sarcastic comment far as i am concerned 12.1 is now officially dead Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.10-0.4-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.5 (4.6.5) "release 7" 18:52 up 6 days 21:10, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.15, 0.10 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org