Posted by Dave Hill on December 15, 2011, 12:30 pm
When people ask questions where the answer is easy to find in line and
is well explained then I for one will put a link to it.
I be blowed if I am going to type out a couple of hundred words when
the answer is easily accesible.
I know I could cut and paste, but why should I. It's not fair on those
with slow internet conections.
If there are a lot of people out there who don't bother to open the
links,(and they should be safe when put there by regular merbers of
URG) then why should I and others bother answering questions.
David
At the wet end of Swansea Bay.
Posted by Jake on December 15, 2011, 1:20 pm
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:30:46 -0800 (PST), Dave Hill
>When people ask questions where the answer is easy to find in line and
>is well explained then I for one will put a link to it.
>I be blowed if I am going to type out a couple of hundred words when
>the answer is easily accesible.
>I know I could cut and paste, but why should I. It's not fair on those
>with slow internet conections.
>If there are a lot of people out there who don't bother to open the
>links,(and they should be safe when put there by regular merbers of
>URG) then why should I and others bother answering questions.
>David
>At the wet end of Swansea Bay.
Maybe there are two issues:
1) It's surprising how many people are starting to mistrust the
internet. Even that trusted fount of all knowledge, Wikipedia, may get
things wrong. (Pardon sarcasm please.)
2) With so many questions coming from people who surface via
GardenBanter and then, question answered, submerge never to be seen
again, the "regular members of URG" may well be an unknown quantity.
I'm beginning to realise how many answers are repeats - I've answered
the same lawn question about 5 times on different occasions and am now
starting to save my answers so I can simply paste them in the next
time. I would like to save others' answers as well but that's breach
of copyright in my book.
OTOH, I'm surprised at the number of people who seem incapable of
typing a simple question into their browser search box. I occasionally
do that to check an answer I've given and sometimes just delete my
answer and suggest typing the question into the search box.
"Google helps those who help themselves" comes to mind. I prefer Bing.
Cheers, Jake
=======================================
Urgling (after the great storm) from
the usually dryer (east) end of Swansea Bay.
Posted by kay on December 15, 2011, 7:06 pm
Jake;944364 Wrote:
>
>
> I'm beginning to realise how many answers are repeats - I've answered
> the same lawn question about 5 times on different occasions and am now
> starting to save my answers so I can simply paste them in the next
> time. .
That's very noble! I just don't answer once I'm bored with giving the
same answer - especially when there's a currently active thread on the
same topic!
We used to put a lot of work into FAQs, with the idea that people could
be directed to those. And then there were people who complained that
being directed to the FAQs was unfriendly to newcomers....
--
kay
Posted by mogga on December 17, 2011, 7:18 am
>Maybe there are two issues:
>1) It's surprising how many people are starting to mistrust the
>internet. Even that trusted fount of all knowledge, Wikipedia, may get
>things wrong. (Pardon sarcasm please.)
It's only the same as asking people in real life.
People have different opinions and some are sometimes wrong.
--
http://www.voucherfreebies.co.uk
Posted by Jeff Layman on December 15, 2011, 3:10 pm
On 15/12/2011 17:30, Dave Hill wrote:
> When people ask questions where the answer is easy to find in line and
> is well explained then I for one will put a link to it.
> I be blowed if I am going to type out a couple of hundred words when
> the answer is easily accesible.
> I know I could cut and paste, but why should I. It's not fair on those
> with slow internet conections.
> If there are a lot of people out there who don't bother to open the
> links,(and they should be safe when put there by regular merbers of
> URG) then why should I and others bother answering questions.
> David
> At the wet end of Swansea Bay.
Wrong way round, Dave.
A few paragraphs of text copied and pasted from a webpage to a Usenet
message will be much quicker for someone using dialup to download and
read. A link to a webpage which has the same text, but which also has
umpteen graphics, will take ages to download.
Why the difficulty copying and pasting? Highlight the text you want to
copy, press Control and c, change to the Usenet message, put the cursor
where you want the copied text to appear, and press Control and v.
Simples!
--
Jeff
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>is well explained then I for one will put a link to it.
>I be blowed if I am going to type out a couple of hundred words when
>the answer is easily accesible.
>I know I could cut and paste, but why should I. It's not fair on those
>with slow internet conections.
>If there are a lot of people out there who don't bother to open the
>links,(and they should be safe when put there by regular merbers of
>URG) then why should I and others bother answering questions.
>David
>At the wet end of Swansea Bay.