[Wine] Developpers vs users

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Mar 16 15:47:46 CDT 2008


On 16/03/2008, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>  I don't advocate dumbing down the list, either.
>
>  There's a difference between "treating newbies with respect"
>  and "dumbing down the list".  Observe:
>
>  "RTFM.  This is answered in the wine manpage."
>  vs.
>  "See answer #1 in http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ "
>
>  The first approach is hostile; the second helpful and respectful.
>  And the respectful, helpful one is shorter!
>

+5 Insightful

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?


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