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Iwander why no one take my posts asking for help into consideration?
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Hi
Hope is not Mr Abbot the avatar I chosen that pouts you off
If is the content of my posts
or whatever
At list write a line with "do it your self and p.off"
it would be a bit more "interactive"!
best regards
Federico
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Frederico,
Certainly it is just me who feels that you are very noisy, do not care at all for typos and clutter up
other threads like www.mapleprimes.com/forum/laplacetransformnotsoeasy and more, which
is like hijacking contributions.
Even if you may be enthusiastic and feel like being in your own home, others - especially me -
do not find that adequate - if not even saying: it is anoying.
Thus - for me - it becomes almost an emotional problem to care for any of your writings.
If you find my personal answer offending and too personal: sorry, but that is a side effect.
However I will not discuss it.
Perhaps you may consider a restart of your appearance ...
@admin: of course you can delete this posting
I second Axel's comments and
I second Axel's comments and views - well said!
I have already ask to unsuscribe from Maple Primes
Hope it will be done soon
F.
PS I did not have any idea that my presence here could have been so ennoing ...Thanks for your honesty
You are welcome here
We welcome all members to MaplePrimes and have no desire for you to leave. What Axel is asking is for you to create new forum topics to ask a question, rather than adding to a thread started by someone else.
If you would like to share something with the community, please post it as a blog entry which is the best way to have people see your work.
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William Spaetzel
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Software Developer, Maplesoft
number of Anonymous points
That's interesting - I see that Anonymous and federiclet (are they the same person?) have the same number of Mapleprime points as me - seems like another Drupal glitch :)
Alec
Post editing
Some (rather long) time ago I was granted the ability of editing my own posts. Now it seems as if I don't have it anymore - I just noticed that I missed a question mark in my post above - and I couldn't find the Edit link. Could this editing ability be possibly restored?
Thank you,
Alec
PS Sorry for hijaking the thread. By the way - with every my new post the number of Anonymous points grows accordingly :)
No longer!
Anonymous no longer seems to track your score, it tracks mine.
Editing Comments
I just logged into an account with the same permissions as you, alec, and was able to edit my own comments. The edit link appears just below the title of the post.
Note, you will not be able to edit comments once someone has replied to them.
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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft
Thank you
Will,
Thank you. I found the Edit link and inserted a missing question mark there.
It is strange that I didn't see it earlier - I couldn't be logged out because I was able to post, and I clearly remember seeing empty space under the title.
"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
Alec
Anonymous Maple Points
It appears that you always see Anonymous as having the same number of Maple points as yourself, obviously this is a bug, however this isn't a priority since there shouldn't be many posts attributed to Anonymous.
federiclet asked to have his account deleted, when this happens, all of his posts get attributed to Anonymous.
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William Spaetzel
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How to ask questions
To answer the original question, Eric Raymond wrote a good guide (and fun reading), How to Ask Questions .
Alec
Good guide?
I am not sure about that. He writes from a "tribal" point of view ("we" and "the rest"), ignoring the complexities of humans and the society.
So, I doubt that it could be useful for people in general.
How about fun reading?
Well, it is certainly hard to change somebody's opinion or the way they express themselves asking for help or just interacting with other people, by any one particular book or article. This one is just the best that I know of on the topic. If there are better ones, I would like to know about them, too.
From my personal experience answering to various questions in the past in this forum and in the newsgroups, I agree with many things that Eric Raymond said. The problem is that if a person knows how to ask good questions, he (or she) doesn't need this guide - except as a fun reading. And if somebody doesn't know how to do that, he (or she) probably won't even read it, and even after reading it wouldn't even try to follow it to see the difference.
Alec
It is a communicational issue
The purpose of any such guide is to provide guidance to newcomers. Then it has to communicate effectively to large numbers of persons of the most varied values, personalities and backgrounds, clues on how to make the best possible profit of community resources like fora and newsgroups.
But I find that his aggresive posture (kind of "you are a stupid and we do not answer questions from stupids") could get exactly the opposite result, as people that might begin reading a text written in such an intolerant tone will give up inmediatelly. Indeed, this was my first reaction.
Sure, I have read it anyways (I am not a typical newcomer) and I have found interesting points. But no, I do not think that it is the right way to discuss them.
Independently of my opinion, I wonder whether there is any hard evidence that this guide has somehow reduced the number of "stupid" questions around.
I am not aware of any other general guide on this issue. Sadly.