From: Mohit Sindhwani Date: 2008-05-11T03:09:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Posting Culture Robert Dober wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Robert Klemme > wrote: > >> All, >> >> is it just me or do we see a shift in postings toward the "can you >> please do my work for me?" type of questions? I get the impression >> that reading Ruby docs and other types of research are going more and >> more out of fashion. Do we give away too much for free? I know, >> nobody has to reply to those questions, but I believe this tendency is >> doing harm to the culture of this (still) friendly community. >> >> Just to make it clear: I am not generally discrediting people that >> seek support but I do have a heavy dislike for laziness. >> >> Regards >> >> robert >> >> > > Hi Robert > > good to post this because I was kind of surprised of some of your > recent replies ;), now I understand. > Hmm it was not a tendency I noted recently I rather felt it was always > a strength of this community to be helpful. > I would love to have the same kind of replies most of us are giving by > example for some Python stuff I am trying to do. (It is because I want > to tame the beast and not because I like its beauty). > > Put shortly, no, I do not really feel this tendency, maybe just an > increase in traffic? > > Cheers > Robert > Hi Roberts (taking a bit of liberty here), I see this as a sign that Ruby is picking up and gaining traction in other places. There was a time when there were a lot of people who were discovering Ruby on their own free will and were looking at documents (online or offline) and trying out different things. As it gains traction, it approaches the point where people are having Ruby thrust on them (possibly more Rails than Ruby) either due to preference of people further up in the food chain or due to clients (specially in the case of outsourced projects). In such cases, it's likely that the engineer is just venting frustration about the language on a forum cos it's something they werem't born to, or achieved - it was thrust on them. I wonder how the situation on other forums is. I find the Ruby forum is better than the Rails forum. The Rails forum is definitely worse with many questions of the kind "I want to do this - please send me code with explanation" (perhaps I exaggerate a little). Cheers Mohit.