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标 题: how to ask questions smartly @@@(18.a)
发信站: 听涛站 (2002年07月19日18:00:06 星期五), 站内信件
On Not Reacting Like A Loser
Odds are you'll screw up a few times on hacker community forums — in ways d
etailed in this article, or similar. And you'll be told exactly how you scre
wed up, possibly with colourful asides. In public.
When this happens, the worst thing you can do is whine about the experience,
claim to have been verbally assaulted, demand apologies, scream, hold your
breath, threaten lawsuits, complain to people's employers, leave the toilet
seat up, etc. Instead, here's what you do:
Get over it. It's normal. In fact, it's healthy and appropriate.
Community standards do not maintain themselves: They're maintained by people
actively applying them, visibly, in public. Don't whine that all criticism
should have been conveyed via private mail: That's not how it works. Nor is
it useful to insist you've been personally insulted when someone comments th
at one of your claims was wrong, or that his views differ. Those are loser a
ttitudes.
There have been hacker forums where, out of some misguided sense of hyper-co
urtesy, participants are banned from posting any fault-finding with another'
s posts, and told "Don't say anything if you're unwilling to help the user."
The resulting departure of clueful participants to elsewhere causes them to
descend into meaningless babble and become useless as technical forums.
Exaggeratedly "friendly" (in that fashion) or useful: Pick one.
Remember: When that hacker tells you that you've screwed up, and (no matter
how gruffly) tells you not to do it again, he's acting out of concern for (1
) you and (2) his community. It would be much easier for him to ignore you a
nd filter you out of his life. If you can't manage to be grateful, at least
have a little dignity, don't whine, and don't expect to be treated like a fr
agile doll just because you're a newcomer with a theatrically hypersensitive
soul and delusions of entitlement.
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