Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: color coding of text Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:46:40 +0200 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <14p0vs1pebbo1$.p3bnutf2i9u4$.dlg@40tude.net> <1i74ciqpddebn$.jrsb3kk4lml9$.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net QqlC5ars5g/zoebgwjCEvguS73S8AsdxAsZVfSsHhFlibnfHs= Cancel-Lock: sha1:Yex9RFLvG6sLCVcti0CLhs2dsSo= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130602-0, 02.06.2013), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:24261 On 01.06.2013 14:30, Arved Sandstrom wrote: > But we don't know that every poster here is a pro. I'll bet quite a few > are not. You might have a guy who works a shitty job who is looking to > improve his marketability by learning a programming language on his own, > for example. Or a parent trying to keep up with her kid's homework. > Under these circumstances using the term RTFM is unhelpful. The fact that someone is new to (Java) programming is unrelated to his ability to deal with unhelpful replies or even inappropriate language. You make it sound (to me at least) a bit like every programming newbie is also a newbie when it comes to social interaction. I prefer to assume persons I interact with to being adult until proven otherwise. Btw, I'm all for politeness and respect but I think that trying to police a public forum without access control is bound to fail - worst case it leads into the opposite direction of the one intended (as another branch of this discussion exemplifies). Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/