On Sat, 13 Dec 1997 ajrye@ONE.NET wrote:
->I have found it that those who are newbies ask newbie question are subject
->to flame, not just becuase they are newbie ,but the flamer has had some
->kinda bad day and the newbie question adds to it.
Undeniably, there are occassions where a person is out of sorts, and
takes out some of their problems on a newbie who has posted a "stupid"
question. But, this is not how it always is, and actually, not how it
usually is. Most flames come because the reader has seen the same
message several times, or because it's in the FAQ, or because it has
no purpose on this CircleMUD mailing list, or because the same message
was posted recently, or the person clearly made no attempt to
understand or do something him/her-self, etc. When someone asks for
code to do something, you can almost bet that someone is going to
reply with, "Do it yourself." Not even George, who seems able to
avoid flaming to a much higher degree than myself, is able to resist
the urge to tell someone to stop posting messages and start writing
code. It'd make things much easier if people actually decided to do
work on their own hobby (and remembered, of course, that MUDs are just
a hobby). What kind of satisfaction can be derived from buying a
model car, and then having someone else build it for you?
daniel koepke / dkoepke@california.com
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