On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Eric Martin <freak4u...@gmail.com> wrote: > b) just because you don't read all of the threads on this list doesn't > mean you're exempt from them. There are plenty times that somebody asks > a question and the answer is, "search the archives for XYZ, we already > covered this, and please search before asking". This is one of those > threads This isn't one of those threads. In the vast majority of those cases, there is at least the item to search for. There wasn't one in this case.
> c) continuing along this line runs the risk of pissing off the very > people who you're asking for help. Shake up who needs to be shaken up. If people get offended by even getting suggested to the fact that their rules are hard to detect, they are going to be offended by a lot of things anyway, and questions are going to be some of them. > I get that you don't like the way things are, but this list is a > community and we all agree to abide by certain rules. The rules don't > change every time a new person joins the community. I think you're missing the point. I never asked the community to change its rules. I'm only saying that these particular rules were invisible, and there's no way to find out about it, and that's going to be a problem for any user community.
