I like you Paul. It is so true of what I see on forums everywhere, 90:10 S:N ratio<br><br>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.<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Paul Johnson <<a href="mailto:baloo@ursine.ca">baloo@ursine.ca</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Dan Kegel <<a href="mailto:dank@kegel.com">dank@kegel.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Paul Johnson <<a href="mailto:baloo@asisine.ca">baloo@asisine.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> > And if they're too dumb to use email,<br>
> > what hope do they have of being able to constructively discuss wine?<br>
><br>
> Being a curmudgeon, that's my own instinctive response.<br>
> But it's possible there's a generation gap at work<br>
> here, and people under 21 or so just don't use email<br>
> in general.<br>
<br>
</div>That's their loss. If they can't be bothered to use the proper<br>
established channels, we shouldn't bother to change the channel to<br>
cater to them.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> There certainly has been a flood of newbies<br>
> posting since we hooked up the forum.<br>
<br>
</div>That's our loss. The quality of the threads has also gone down. Not<br>
to mention the spam flood, plus that one moron who insists on<br>
responding to every spam to tell everyone it's spam. Way to go,<br>
there, too: A lot of us wouldn't have ever seen the spam if he hadn't<br>
replied to it...<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> We can probably reduce the number of clueless posts<br>
> a bit by writing an FAQ tailored to forum users,<br>
<br>
</div>But being forum users, they won't read it anyway. Forum users come<br>
with the attitude of "I'm not paying for help, but YOU FUCKING OWE ME,<br>
DAMMIT!! I'm not going to provide any useful information about what's<br>
wrong, you get to give me a magic fix! And it has to happen RIGHT<br>
NOW!!111!! Do we really need them?<br>
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Paul Johnson<br>
<a href="mailto:baloo@ursine.ca">baloo@ursine.ca</a><br>
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