I find it hard to believe that the decline of a list could be due to one=20
person, just a few people.  Personally, my participation dropped off=20
because as I got to know PICs more and more, developed my business more=20
and more, and hence became more administrative.  Still using PICs, and=20
even more so now, but some of the development has been pushed off to=20
others.  As I learned more, I obviously asked less questions.  There are=20
always people coming and going on lists, and I feel that the ones=20
expected to come in haven't been doing so, as it seems from my robotics=20
activities and other clubs that the Arduino has become the noob platform=20
of choice.



On 12/9/2014 8:27 AM, RussellMc wrote:
>>
>>>> Well, I never saw the message Russell is quoting here
>>> Me neither
>>
>> http://meta.electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/3997/how-can-we-impr=
ove-the-manner-in-which-poor-questions-are-dealt-with
>>
>> The comment has probably been removed.
>>
>> It's still there.
> It's a comment on Nick's question starting "One week is too long ..."
>
> FWIW, it's a matter of fact and record that most people commenting
> 'against' my suggestions re how to treat beginners have no clue and no
> experience of what process the new poster experiences, how it appears to
> them and the difficulty they have overcoming a "closed" question.
>
> I have worked offlist with several new posters on that 'list' to help the=
m
> overcome the bad reactions to their first questions and so have a good id=
ea
> of how it can appear 'from the other side'.
> In many cases the OP does not use English as their first language.
> A major problem, invisible to those who have it, is that some
>
> people (who may be highly "intelligent" and capable in their sphere of
> expertise) *seem to have *an extremely low ability to understand anything
> not written in a manner which they are highly familiar with. A question c=
an
> make good sense, be logical, be a good question in its own right and be
> worded in unusual but entirely acceptable English, but meet with opprobri=
um
> and incomprehension by the linguistically strait-jacketed ones. As many o=
f
> these also have question closing power the result is predictable. If I wa=
s
> not giving such people the strong benefit of the doubt I'd suspect that
> more than a few are not quite as incapable as they pretend to be but have
> "racist leanings".
>
>
>
>          Russell

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