From: Vincent Fourmond Date: 2007-02-15T07:41:41+09:00 Subject: Re: Adopt-a-newbie? Based on actual experience. SonOfLilit wrote: > All of this has brought me to think of an Adopt-a-newbie model. [...] > What do you think? Would you consider it a good idea? Would you volunteer? > Is anyone up for infrastructure (preferrably on ruby-lang.org, though > anywhere is good)? I very much like the idea, but I would like to mitigate a little the points of view given so far. True enough, some newbie questions are recurring and sometimes a little heavy on the list. But it often happens that a newbie question triggers a whole bunch of completely different answers on the list - and I've learned many tricks from 'newbie' questions, though I hardly consider myself a newbie anymore. That would be a pity to deprive ruby-talk reader from this interesting threads. To prevent that, why not change slightly the role of the 'mentor' : if I understand right, an important part of the problem is about self-censorship. So if the 'mentor' could act as a 'censor' (sorry, my English is not that great and I can't come up with a more neutral term) and redirect the newbie to the list when he/she thinks that it is likely to trigger a rich thread ? Just my 2 cents... Vince -- Vincent Fourmond, PhD student (not for long anymore) http://vincent.fourmond.neuf.fr/