The path from newbie to guru starts with a single step...

[denny]

In yet another wave of the eternally ongoing discussion about the attitude problems of #debian, ##php and #perl on Freenode, the following link got thrown into the discussion... and I liked it a lot.

How to Build a User Community, Part 1

Comments

[goth-amalthea.livejournal.com]

Hey i havent heard from your friend about the cases yet?

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

He said the same thing to me this morning. I suspect I'm not a very good middle-man :) I'll talk to you on MSN or something...

[deliberateblank.livejournal.com]

Meh. My experience of many tech communities is that the askers/answerers are the other way round. Even if you try to second guess all the obvious wrong and useless answers by specifically stating what you've already tried or what in context can't be the problem, the first answer to come back will be from someone who refused to read what you wrote, and answered instead some bastardisation of the question limited by their own limited experience of the subject area. Which it turns out they don't fully understand even that bit of.