[Wine] BUG: Forum driving away experienced users

[Dan Kegel]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:52 PM, AlanJ <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Trouble is if you split the list into newbies and non-newbies the people the
> other Alan despises so much won't think of themselves as newbies.

Oh, I don't know... I bet people who are new to Wine might well
self-select into a newbies group.

>  As a relative newbie myself I find it hard to swallow some of the near-elitist attitude
> shown by some experts, calling someone who isn't as experienced as you a noob
> is just plain insulting.

Yes.  Do you think the name wine-newbies is a bad idea?  I had thought
it was ok,
people who are new do tend to think of themselves as newbies for a
while, don't they?

>  How you deal with the people who don't read the FAQs, check the AppDB, etc and can't post a thought out question is the miilion dollar question that every help/support person would love to know the answer to. If you feel the need to insult them what does that say about you.Yes I know sometimes it is hard not to insult but this is the internet you can choose not to answer them.

Amen.
- Dan