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Okay, so, sometimes I do this. Not with IRC specifically, but in person or over IM with other humans. Sometimes I want to talk to a someone, and I feel like a
by civilian 15y ago
Okay, so, sometimes I do this. Not with IRC specifically, but in person or over IM with other humans. Sometimes I want to talk to a someone, and I feel like an active listener will be much better at explaining the whole picture and answering my follow-up questions. Or I want to start a discussion around the issue.
Hopefully you don't do this, but I think that linking people to http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/ http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/ is anti-social and is bad for any community.
- JonnieCache 15y agoI don't think anyone is going to think less of you for going to real people with your problems. It's specifically when people go into a channel full of strangers and ask things like "how can I do a find with a many to many in rails" that I'm talking about. I guess it's the sense of entitlement that's annoying. Why would you expect strangers to help you when you can't even be bothered to state the question in a way that would make things easy for them? I realise english isn't everyone's first language, but I have seen people who speak very broken english take great pains to explain their problems clearly as best they can, it isn't an excuse. And no, I don't ever get snarky. People with stupid questions should get ignored at worst. In these cases, the questions are usually so trivial that being convincingly rude would take more effort than just solving the problem. This is a better link to post in these situations: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html In fact, the bot in #rubyonrails cites this link when prompted with !ask