From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2007-04-08T14:49:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Question to all you newbies (others welcome)

Phrogz wrote:
> On Apr 7, 9:09 pm, James Britt <james.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I get all sorts of comments about ruby-doc.org, most helpful, but some
>> are just lists of complaints.  To those, my answer is (almost) always,
>> "Where's the patch?"
> 
> Ah, but:
> http://phrogz.net/nodes/criticismwithoutasolution.asp
> 
> It's hard to take, but (IMO) complaints are still valid and helpful
> without patches. In some cases (if the complainer has no coding/
> writing/designing skill) they are far *better* without a patch,
> because they let you focus on the problem at hand, and not some
> particularly foolish fix they propose.


When someone tells me I have a misspelling or that something is 
rendering poorly in Opera, that's fine.

When I get three pages of "Here's why your site sucks", that's a 
different story.

Somewhere in between, people should start considering that time spent 
complaining about 10 things could be spent fixing any one of them.


-- 
James Britt

"I was born not knowing and have had only a little
  time to change that here and there."
  - Richard P. Feynman