On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 04:04:51PM +0000, Ed W wrote: > ben@bristolwireless.net wrote: > > > >"Comes across as a tad bit arrogant" it really is just a tad bit and > >will probably change as the project progresses. I sometimes detect a > >"why don't people know this already?" attitude. It's easy to fall into > >this feeling when directed the wiki and then thinking to ones self, > >"Why didn't I find that?". Many people will not bother to peruse > >documentation before asking questions, I do though, but still there > >are many times I can't find solutions to my problems in vserver > >documentation. There are some characteristics of the documentation and > >of linux-vserver which are part of this problem. > Just to give a bit of balance on this. Personally I don't see this. > However, I suspect that some on this list are not native english > speakers and those of us who are, need to try and allow that sometimes > written english comes across in ways it was not intended > Annecdote: I personally sometimes get people coming back asking why I am > being shirty in an email. I look back at what I wrote and it will be > something I wrote in a hurry and it's missing all the flowery cr*p that > us english folks pepper our writing with. If you write terse to the > point english then it's frequently interpreted as being "rude", when > it's actually just to the point. Just beware of that basically wouldn't hurt to get examples for that for 'us' non native english speakers :) TIA, Herbert