I am an avid reader of the ES-Discuss mailing list and I have seen these "disenfranchised" developers this article is talking about, who blunder into the list w

I am an avid reader of the ES-Discuss mailing list and I have seen these "disenfranchised" developers this article is talking about, who blunder into the list with their fabulous ideas without lurking first, or searching the mailing list archives or bug databases, or the wiki. It's not hard at all to participate in the ES-Discuss mailing list. You just have to treat it with at least the same degree of respect you'd treat any other forum full of people smarter than you. Now when I say that, I don't mean that just because they are smarter you have nothing to contribute, but you have to pick up your game a little bit and try not to be completely ignorant when you make a suggestion- since all that does is increase the noise level. But getting to that point is not the horrible insurmountable obstacle the article makes it out to be. It is not hard to not be ignorant.