RE: [cobalt-users] Re: aspiring moderators

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> In the guidelines it talks about communicating with people as if you were
> face to face with them. I am curoius to know whether some of the reply's
> that I have seen would have been sent if they were face to face with Mike
> Tyson.

How one would speak to a dangerous rapist and felon is a little different
than how one would reply to someone asking a question on this list for the
10th time in 2 weeks.

>
> If someone wants to point out that a post is against the rules then fine,
> but be nice. I also think that useless posts such as "another one for the
> kill file" and such like should not be posted, what good are they for the
> list?
>

Be nice? Wouldn't it be nice if those constantly asking questions covered
repeatedly on the list and easily found not only in the archives but on
Google, would take 5 minutes to search and indicate what steps they have
tried? IMO, at the point someone decides to administer their own server I
would expect they at least had the ability to look at an error message or
log from their server, pick out a couple of words or phrase from the error
and try it in the archives or a search engine.

As for indicating that someone has been kill filed, well, at least it points
out to the next person who top posts or posts in HTML why their questions
aren't being answered. Maybe it's educational.

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Dan Kriwitsky