> You are confusing me for the OP. Please read carefully next time before > you respond to the wrong person. > > I bumped because the OP's question was not specific and I thought I > talked about people making their requests or questions very specific if > they expect any useful replies.
Hi Evans, Let get this out in the open. I'm not certain that "bumping" helps on Python-Tutor. It's not like we're voting for certain questions to be answered. And the volume of questions isn't yet high enough to "bury" anything. We're not Digg or Slashdot. The key to mailing lists like this is to keep signal-to-noise as low as we can: otherwise, it ends up driving away volunteers who want to help but who have limited time. Bumping doesn't add signal, but it does annoy volunteers, and that's bad. So, let's please not do that again. Addressing a general problem: I'm getting the strong sense that some data-mining class has just given an assignment to write a search engine in Python. In this scenario, the instructor may link Python-Tutor as a good resource for asking questions. All of this would be perfectly fine. Well, sorta. If one is in an "upper-level" course such as data-mining, Python-tutor should not be much help, since we focus on basic programming questions that should already be familiar to any CS student. I don't mean this to be snobbery; this is just a statement of my expectations. In any case, we're getting hit now with questions on how to do this search engine assignment. If I'm reading this situation correctly: can someone contact that instructor and tell them to tell their students not to abuse Python-tutor? We're not a one-stop shop for homework or project help, and these sort of questions tend to hit the morale of volunteers a bit. Again, it's not healthy for the list. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
