Op 16-11-13 22:44, Mark Lawrence schreef: > On 16/11/2013 21:26, Antoon Pardon wrote: >> >> Please don't encourage our Help Vampire. I know this is generally a >> welcoming community that is generous with its expertise, even if >> someone asks questions beyond python. But Nikos abuses that generousity >> which angers and frustrates a lot of people and generates a lot of >> hostility here. >> >> So we need people not to encourage Nikos and that means being rather >> less friendly with him than with others. So please ignore non >> python questions from him. With respect to python questions: Don't >> spoon feed him. Don't answer his questions for him or do his work for >> him. Give him the information he needs to find things out himself, >> preferably refer him to the documentation. >> > > Although I agree with the sentiments that you give above, I've come to > the conclusion that giving him anything is a complete waste of our time. > Why answer his questions if he then states he doesn't want to do it that > way? Why refer him to documentation if he refuses to read it? > > I don't like saying this but I believe the only way to get any peace > around here is to ignore him completely. Surely by now he's way past > his "three strikes and you're out" limit?
Well I personnaly tend to agree. However I fear that a number of persons will always feel uncomfortable with ignoring Nikos completely. So I see this as a compremise. Those who feel they can't completely ignore Nikos can in this way still contribute in a way that doesn't encourage the help vampiristic behaviour. And maybem just maybe if enough people only refer him to the documentation Nikos will finally start reading them. -- Antoon Pardon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
