On Tuesday 20 Jul 2010 21:39:17 Brian K. White wrote:
On 7/20/2010 3:47 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2010/07/20 17:56 (GMT+0100) Bob Williams composed:
I'm still unclear which of forums or mailing lists produce more good answers compared to unhelpful ones.
In many moons of experience, I've found Google hits on forum URLs produce far more questions asked than good responses, and a frustrating number of questions with no responses at all.
+1.
Or worse, you find wrong answers.
37 how do I do X, and yeah I wanna know too, followed by one "OK I been trying to do this forever too and after 18 solid days of torture I finally got it..." [...] and won't come back to the thread and update it with the epilogue that says "uh actually don't do any of that stuff it was all wrong because I had no freaking slightest clue what I was doing..."
Of the few forums I do frequent, e.g. http://forum.joomla.org/, they try to encourage OPs to revisit their first post and edit the subject to say "[SOLVED] original-question-about-joomla!". Unfortunately, not many do this, but it makes browsing the forum for meaningful answers a lot easier. I've seen this technique used here as well. Bob -- http://brightonbelle.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org