> > I have worked with many people who are very reluctant to post to a forum > asking for help. They will spend a whole day trying to figure out the > issue all by themselves. It became so bad that we had to institute a 30 > minutes rule (if you can't solve an issue in 30 minutes - seek help) to > make sure too much time is not wasted on chasing issue which somebody > else might have solved already. I often find myself violating this a lot > of time, in all these years I have hardly posted half a dozen times, > even that after spending considerable amount of time trying to solve it > myself. Maybe this partially explains the limited number of posts. >
Could be. > > It is also probably another one of those "small town" afflictions - a > lot of us are too scared to say anything in public that might make us > sound silly/stupid. > Very true. Not just a small town affliction per se. I think its symptomatic of the education system at large which doesn't encourage active questioning. > One other reason for posts like these is probably the inability to > communicate in English. I have come across people for whom it takes a > lot of effort to write a full sentence in English. > Same as above. > > I also feel that we need to either ignore such requests (unless the list > gets inundated by those) are politely guide them to ways they can solve > such issues on their own / better ways of asking questions. Being rude > will not help anybody - it will probably scare away a few more people > who would have posted a better question & found help. > > Completely agree with you on all points. Excellent post. Thank you, Jayanth
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