Re^2: Monastery Gates Suggestion for Improvement

[jettero]

cold and elitist (RTFM and so on)

I find that more than a third of the SoPWs have at least one response that links to the super search along with some quip like, "did you even try searching first!?!?!" (It's a pet peeve. My thinking: If you don't want to answer, don't worry, someone else will.)

UPDATE: kyle, I exaggerate 100% of the time.

[jvector]

Being fairly new here myself, I've observed the same not-so-gentle responses to some SoPWs (and, being of a fairly timorous nature, made sure to read every darn page I could find on the subject of posting before doing so). But I have also been impressed by the patient, tolerant and helpful replies that have been offered to even the most poorly framed questions. I think that's a testament to the quality of people there are in this place.

There are already the "please read this first" notes under the Add your question area of the SoPW page. I suspect the world is made up of those who read things first and those who don't, so I don't honestly expect that another admonition on the Monastery Gates page would make much difference to the actions of the latter group.

The fact that unformatted questions still get through despite having to go through a preview stage suggests to me that the authors are operating in a write-only mode anyway.

[kyle]

I went to the Seekers of Perl Wisdom page and clicked the the "next entries" link at the bottom. Then I went through the ten questions (with a total of 60 replies) and skimmed through the replies. Two replies had links to How (Not) To Ask A Question and similar, one of those had a quip ("your bug is on line 42", directed at a monk who had posted no code). I also saw one that was a polite pointer to an external link.

I also went to Super Search and had a look at my own references to Super Search itself. Most of them say either "Super Search is your friend" or "Super Search is super". That's after a useful link that I'd found with Super Search.

Anyway, I think your estimated ratio of quipped to unquipped questions is a bit high.

[syphilis]

It's a pet peeve

I've got one of them, too !! ... ie same pet, same peeve :-)

Cheers,
Rob