From: Michelle Col Date: 2012-09-07T23:21:21+09:00 Subject: Re: Parsing through downloaded html Lars Haugseth wrote in post #1075010: > On 09/07/2012 03:29 AM, Michelle Col wrote: >> Ruby is a nice language for beginners. I am new user for 1 day now and I >> have learned so much from everyone! Try to avoid saying that you are >> new. This is due to a user named Ryan Daves. He talks very negative >> to users who do that. Also another ruby forum you might want to >> reference is at tek-tips.com. The users are helpful there as well. Good >> luck. -Michelle > > As someone commenting on other people's lack of social skills, you could > do far worse than trying to improve your own, badmouthing Ryan like that > in a topic that is totally unrelated to the one where you took offence > to his manner of replying. > > You need only look through a couple of days' worth of older messages > here to see that you are drawing totally incorrect conclusions based on > a single post of his. For your information, Ryan Davis is among the most > helpful and knowledegable people around here. > > If you have issues with his reply to you, I suggest you take in up with > him within that very thread, preferrably in a more civilized manner. > Thank you. In my approach for help on this forum, I tried to be as detailed as possible to get help. I even explained that I am a beginner and the reply that I received contained false accusations. If the user was expecting a snippet, I would have sent it. Otherwise, why did he even reply if he didn’t know how to reply? A logical reply would have been, “Will you send the code you have so far?” In my 1-day experience as a user on this ruby forum, I have discovered that if a user says that they are a “newb” or a “beginner” then they may be verbally attacked or told they are being “passive”. The intent of a forum is for other users to help or advise a user in the subject matter; it is not to decide if the user is being “passive” in their approach. Perhaps there is a need to focus on helping users with ruby programming logic when the user requests help instead of replying to the user by stating that they are being “passive” as discovered in this thread or making false accusations. -Michelle -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.