[Wine] Web Forums

[Daniel Burke]

I like you Paul.  It is so true of what I see on forums everywhere, 90:10
S:N ratio

I do however find Forums can be useful as a repository, especially when I am
at someone elses computer or do not feel like searching my own email.



On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at asisine.ca> wrote:
> >  > And if they're too dumb to use email,
> >  > what hope do they have of being able to constructively discuss wine?
> >
> >  Being a curmudgeon, that's my own instinctive response.
> >  But it's possible there's a generation gap at work
> >  here, and people under 21 or so just don't use email
> >  in general.
>
> That's their loss.  If they can't be bothered to use the proper
> established channels, we shouldn't bother to change the channel to
> cater to them.
>
> >  There certainly has been a flood of newbies
> >  posting since we hooked up the forum.
>
> That's our loss.  The quality of the threads has also gone down.  Not
> to mention the spam flood, plus that one moron who insists on
> responding to every spam to tell everyone it's spam.  Way to go,
> there, too:  A lot of us wouldn't have ever seen the spam if he hadn't
> replied to it...
>
> >  We can probably reduce the number of clueless posts
> >  a bit by writing an FAQ tailored to forum users,
>
> But being forum users, they won't read it anyway.  Forum users come
> with the attitude of "I'm not paying for help, but YOU FUCKING OWE ME,
> DAMMIT!!  I'm not going to provide any useful information about what's
> wrong, you get to give me a magic fix! And it has to happen RIGHT
> NOW!!111!!  Do we really need them?
>
> --
> Paul Johnson
> baloo at ursine.ca
>
>
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