Edit:by Ardouos »
bw123 wrote:
I'm kinda new
With nearly 2000 posts (at this moment in time) and an account that has been created in 2011, are you?
Well, to start with it is or was not
"chastising" at all, at least based on the definition, I found.
I had to look it up, because I was not sure what that means.
When I looked at "google translate",
https://translate.google.com/#en/es/chastise and see it means "castigar ", and it was not like that at all.
HuangLao wrote:montagdude wrote:Not to be rude, but was a new thread really needed just to chastise someone about using a search engine?
It was educational not chastisement.
It is a combination, of being "cheeky" or sarcastic, I did also notice how long
'bw123' has been around, and figured they were being, "cheeky"
as admitted:
'bw123'---- I know that I was just being cheeky with a few offhand comments.
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Post by montagdude » 2016-09-14 14:19
Not to be rude, but was a new thread really needed
Yes, definitely a new thread, in this "off topic" forum, was/is the correct way to discuss
this, rather then de-rail the original topic.
As for if it was needed or not, I don't know on that. Most of the topics in the
off topic forum are not really needed or necessary , as far as that goes.
But members do enjoy them, and it makes the forum more interesting.
There might be a need to explain some things, especially to
real "newbies", whom almost never read the forum guidelines
Forum guidelines. Please read before first post!,
And how hard is that to understand "Before first post",...? But they never read it,
but any way, not "chastising", just a reminder.
One would think that the first places "newbies" or beginners would look would
be :
Beginners Questions
Please Read.. What we expect you have already Done.
We welcome people that are new to Debian, and Linux, and it is understandable
that some may be so young, or have just recently gotten their first computer, it
is possible they really do not know much about Internet, search engines, etc, ...
It is not "chastising" , to try to take the time to demonstrate how to do a search,
and also try to explain the importance of writing correctly, there probably are more
non-English speaking members on the forum then English speaking, and many
probably need to use a translator , "google" is not the only one, but any way,
when people do not take the time to spell correctly, and use proper grammer,
it makes it almost impossible to translate what they wrote accurately.
Who knows, the only person that can answer your question , might only read,write and speak Chinese (for example), so they use a translator to read the questions, if it is
not written clearly, in good English, using proper grammar and spelling , then it
will not translate correctly, not even close. So they either cannot make sense of it,
or interpret it wrong, so it goes unanswered or worse , gets a wrong answer,....
And then, there is far to many literally "silly" questions, that can easily be answered
by doing a search, for example :
What is pluma on Debian ?
There really is no need to ask that, it takes about 5 seconds to get the answer,..
and it can and does interrupt, or de-rails, topics when people ask things that
can be answered with a quick search.
Of course a "newbie", someone totally new to the Internet, might not know how to
do that,...
And of course many questions are much more complex, and not easily answered
with just doing searches, often it takes more and especially when the searches
yield many "conflicting" answers, obviously it is necessary to ask for some help to
confirm which answers are valid and may be of use,....
And then, there are the ones that either refuse to use "code boxes", or do not
know how, because they have never used a forum powered with software that
has that feature.
It might not seem important, but if you want people to read the
post, and be able to see the scripts,code, or out put clearly , and interpret it accurately,
then it is important.
But I suppose that would be a different "off topic" topic,... in any event , I don't
pay much attention to the posts that do not use code boxes, just "scan" them and
check for spam, or spamlinks,...
Again, it is understandable how a "newbie" might not know about the "code boxes",
either,..... suggesting or asking that they use them, is not "chastising" though.
I guess I have wasted enough time for now, and honestly I do have better things
to do. But it is great practice at typing and writing,...
