From: Steve Downie Date: 2013-02-21T06:17:43+09:00 Subject: Ruby-Talk without the cruft > > It's all about the perception... depends on people mentality. Forum is > > to help someone. I would agree with Robert, although not with you. > > It is about the perception of the group. Not the individual. The more you behave > the way you do, the more the group will perceive you as a help vampire. Tho, > after seeing the rest of your responses to this thread, the more you come off > like a troll. Keep up the good work. "Cruft is a collective term for the elements of a program, system or product that are either useless, poorly designed or both....Something that is "crufty" may be dirty, unpleasant, extra, sloppily implemented, duplicated elsewhere or simply useless." From thread: Re: splat operator and Ruby instance variable assignments 18 of the 22 messages listed with this topic have nothing to do with the original question (even if it *may* have been posed by a member whom many consider to be a 'help vampire'). You can find help without the cruft by checking out http://RubyTalkTips.com/tips/ (guaranteed to be vampire and troll free). Be warned, this is a subjective list (580 tips and growing). If I find a post or a series of posts to be helpful explaining anything 'ruby', I try to whittle down the posts to their essentials and post the relevant information as a 'tip'. All information is stored in a searchable PostgreSQL database, and can be sorted by subject, author, date, type and keywords. The ruby-talk mailing list is the primary source of most all of the information found there. I don't update this list daily, but I try to wait until a thread has run its course, and decide if any of the information in the message thread is worth re-dissemination. I recently added the 'Posted' column to make it easier to sort by the most recent tips (which is now the default). We all owe a serious dept of gratitude for the posters here who spend their time explaining and commenting on the myriad of topics posed here. It's a long list and if I start naming names, I will surely miss someone deserving mention. You know who you are, and you have my THANKS!. ;-) A simple sort by author on the RubyTalkTips site will clearly show you who they are by the quantity and the quality of their messages. I know there must be hundreds of readers, like myself, who read and benefit from the expertise and great advice that is posted to this list. This project is just my way of giving back something to the community that has been so helpful to me and others. I hope you find something useful there. Cheers! -- Steve aka Capt. Downer email: captdowner@gmail.com site: http://rubytalktips.com -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.