Re: QTS ( was Re: user support - Shapado instance for Debian)
2010/10/8 Jesús M. Navarro <jesus.navarro@undominio.net>:
> Hi Tshepang:
>
> On Thursday 07 October 2010 19:02:39 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 18:13, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>
>> You ask a question, and someone answers. If you find the answer
>> useful, you vote it as correct, and the answerer gets points for that.
>> You also get email notifications if you so wish if you got a new
>> answer. Go have a look and see (ask.debian.net). It's quite a good
>> idea.
>
> That's knowledge by consensus. How it deals with nonsenses?
>
> I.e.:
> Q: I downloaded a script from the Internet and I can't execute it.
> A: cd ~ && chmod -R a+x
>
> Hey, it works! I think I should mod up this guy.
>
> It's not a theoretical scenario: I visit Ubuntu forums from time to time and
> there's an ashtounding number of answers in the line of my previous example.
And how does a mailing list get rid of that problem? Is it because
there's more experts there?
By the way, moderators exist to reduce such problems, and DPL is one of them.
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