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The people who most need to read this document will never read it.
by maqr 15y ago
The people who most need to read this document will never read it.
- ryanbigg 15y agoI disagree. We have this as the !ask command in #Rubyonrails for when somebody asks to ask. It really improves the kind of questions that people would ask if you first ask them to read it. You can't just expect people to chance across golden nuggets of knowledge like this one, you must lead them there first.
- wccrawford 15y agoHeck, I LOVE reading, and I can't be bothered to actually read it. What are the chances that non-techies are going to read it, let alone actually follow it? From what I skimmed, the advice is spot-on... But people with a problem don't have patience. They need to fix the problem and move on. And the ones asking for free help on the internet are usually not willing to pay for it. (People who have already exhausted other means are the exception... But then, they're already following this document!)