From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2006-12-20T02:31:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] where have all the experienced users gone?

Eric Hodel wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2006, at 18:50, Trans wrote:
> 
>> seems like there's been a steady drop off in experienced ruby users on
>> the list. is it me or has there really been some sort of migration
>> away?
> 
> In the back-channels I've heard the following reasons for why long-time 
> readers of ruby-talk cut back:
> 
> a) signal:noise ratio too low.
> b) belligerent newbies.

Agreed.

I've been marking all list mail as 'read' upon arrival so there is no 
instant clue that there are new messages.  I visually scan for certain 
sender names or topic words, and have some filters to catch references 
to a small set of keywords.  Just in case.

But I don't bother trying to keep up or pitch in as I once did.  I'm 
sure I'm missing some interesting topics, but it's too tedious to wade 
through "What is the best IDE?" , "What's wrong with my ajax?",  "Why is 
my model not validating?", and "Your opinion on [foo] is teh sux."

All in all, I'd rather just focus on writing, and writing about, Ruby.

(This started way before the holidays, too, so we can't blame Santa's 
elves.)

-- 
James Britt

"Simplicity of the language  is not what matters, but
simplicity of use."
  - Richard A. O'Keefe in squeak-dev mailing list