Re: [orca-list] Off-topic Messages (was Re: ubuntu on vista machine)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Jacob:

Ideally, everyone would read the WIKI, the Manual, the FAQ, and the  
Netiquette guidelines.  It's not like these things are hidden - they  
are posted at the bottom of every message sent to this list.

It's just a fact of life that we're going to always be dealing with  
people who'd rather take other people's time to get their answers  
rather than do research themselves.  I wish http://lmgtfy.com/ (Let Me  
Google That For You) were accessible since it is a wonderful passive  
aggressive way to respond to people who don't have a clue.

As a moderator of this list, I don't have the time to moderate every  
single message coming through.  I would be a severe bottleneck and  
would probably only get to the messages once a day.  This would hurt  
on-topic discussion.   As a member of this list, however, I have the  
same ability everyone else does, which is to IGNORE OFF TOPIC MESSAGES  
-- DELETE THEM -- DON'T RESPOND TO THEM.  Or, if you are feeling  
remotely helpful, just respond by pointing the user to a more  
appropriate mailing list.  Once you help someone with an off topic  
message, you're sunk.  It's like feeding a dog scraps off the table.

Will

On May 27, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:

> Hello
> Look, I don't really want to be rude or anything... but this has
> absolutely nothing to do with Orca at all. I'm not a moderator, so
> consider this a plea to the moderators... can we keep the list more on
> topic? I can't count the number of off-topic threads I've looked  
> through
> lately. Distro questions, installation problems... most of these have
> absolutely nothing to do with Orca or GNOME accessibility in general.
> It seems every accessibility list starts turning into a general tech
> support list... can we not let that happen here, please?
>
> Thanks, all flames to /dev/null of course.
>
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