Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:02:57 -0600
From: "Michael B. Brutman" <mbbrutman-cctalk at brutman.com>
Subject: Re: Ten Year Rule
Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> Well, without the newbs the community will slowly
die away. I like to
> see young people getting interested in what I'm interested in. Let them
> talk about their "vintage" Pentium and hope they discover the cool stuff
> in the "Minis and Mainframes" section.
<snip>
> I'm in both and I also visit
http://forums.nekochan.net/ for my daily
> dose of SGI.
>
> Kind regards,
> Pontus.
Hi Pontus,
We need the newbs, and we need to be gentle to them.
But newbs can get
annoying when they just babble endlessly and refuse to do basic
research. The good news is that we can try to moderate or filter a lot
of that out.
<snip>
Regards,
Mike
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...and moderators can be annoying when they're patronizing and condescending
and think that people who think P1s are antiques are a "problem" on a forum like
Erik's which is mostly about exactly that, folks helping each other restoring and
modifying their old Intel boxes (but also more esoteric stuff, in case I'm giving the
wrong impression).
Meanwhile, here we can spend a week discussing and reading about arcane
camera stuff, but woe to anyone who might mention Windows 3.1...
And now of course we have to have the tedious "what is vintage" discussion yet
once again... has this been a problem? Have we been overwhelmed with Vista
questions?
Did someone use the word 'anal'...?
m