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I guess that in saying I didn't like the responses without suggesting a fix,
I was doing it too.  At least no one suggested I was trying to get a
solution from others as part of a sociology class.

I've been thinking about it and I don't think I have a solution either.  I
thought that maybe the group should be limited to professionals and
qualified hobbyists.  Does that mean an on-line quiz you have to pass to
join?  Does it mean you need to provide the moderator with a resume before
being allowed to join?  Maybe each new subscriber should just get an auto
email that explains what they can/can't expect from the group and what
they're expected to contribute.  If you're not answering questions at least
in 30% of your posts, you get put on read only status.  Maybe all new users
should be read only for a month or two.  That would at least weed out those
who join a week before the final project is due.

That would approach it from the "dumb questions" side.  The thing that set
me off to write my message was what I saw as an unfriendly tone to the group
that seemed to treat questions with a "don't bother us, just figure it out"
message.

The only thing I can think of for that is if you don't want to answer, just
don't answer instead of accusing the person of being a cheater in a course,
which you really have no way of knowing if that's the case.  I can say that
I've worked with my share of people who work for a living and still want it
all handed to them by others.  I'm sure others have too.

After a few weeks of being on this list, I think I'm losing patience with
the people that just ask for code too so I can understand being short with
the umpteenth request to do free work for people.

Sorry for the longwinded answer.  I'm afraid the only concrete thing in it
is to restrict the list and I don't know if there is any interest in that.



-----Original Message-----
From: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Tom Becker
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:57 AM
To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [AVR-Chat] Re: Interrupt Service Routine for Atmega 16: Homework


--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Philippe Habib <phabib@...> wrote:
 
> I've been writing code professionally for 20+ years but sometimes, I  
> suspect like all of us, I don't get something or overlook something  
> stupid and at those times it sure would be nice to know I could ask a  
> group of professionals for some help without someone deciding my  
> question is too stupid and that I must be a 20 year old looking for  
> someone to do his homework for him.

Some of us have been doing this for awhile, Philippe, and we see
patterns.  How would you suggest this real first post (just arrived on
another group) should be answered?  Want a job (no pay, no thanks)?

"bharadwaz_srikanth wrote:
I need complete ultimate information on Microcontrollers which must be
self explanatory."

Tom




 
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