Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Christoph Becker Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Maintainer of the FAQ Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:59:33 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <46247081-75ce-430c-8319-459ddcdf17fe@bx4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <1868da91-d142-49ee-8b09-27c0983c1af4@a2g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <2177393.4orgOXNLzl@PointedEars.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: Nv3+HGCKyO7PTXENYa2bLw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:17527 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >> IMHO support in this newsgroup and maintaining the FAQ are not >> /too/ >>> closely related. The FAQ should be a sober document; support >>> should be friendly and kind. > Allow me clarify a few misconceptions you appear to have. > > [...] Thanks for the clarifications; they concur with my conception of a Usenet discussion group. And of course I don't want to turn this newsgroup into a support forum. > For example, if someone thinks that you are telling or doing > nonsense, you will be told upfront, in public, that what you are > telling or doing *is* nonsense. You will not be told that it would be > “not quite right” in order to pamper your oversensitive customer > soul. IMHO some kindness and politeness will never hurt.[1] Perhaps the one who's telling or doing nonsense today, would have been a valuable regular contributor to the newsgroup tomorrow, if he had not been scared away. > If you cannot deal with that approach, please go elsewhere. I can deal with this approach, so I will stay. > IOW, should the subscribers of this newsgroup ever agree that it > became a customer support forum, I am gone. That would be a great loss for this newsgroup. (in all honesty) > This is not a threat; it is a fact. Everytime *I* have added this to a statement, it was in fact meant as a threat. ;) [1] -- Christoph M. Becker