"measuring" the snippety arrogance (was: Re: [...other thread])

[Mike Schwartz]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:56 PM, mike havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think PLUG is an anomaly. It seems most people display snippety arrogance rather than help.
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Josef Lowder <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>>
>> In response to the subject problem, someone wrote:
>> > Buy a Mac? ;)
>>
>> That is obviously not helpful.
>>
>> I did buy a macbook 15" a few weeks ago and found it to be weird and
>> totally unsatisfactory for many, many reasons ... [...]

In reply to this quip:
> I think PLUG is an anomaly. It seems most people
> display snippety arrogance rather than help.

IMHO:
There are [or at least there were, "in the past"] places (like, in
certain Usenet news groups), where the snippety arrogance is [/was],
"Piled Higher & Deeper" -- [by far] -- than here on PLUG-Discuss.

OTOH, there may be some places that are (usually) more polite.
But overall, in my experience, considering the speed and quality of
help / advice available, and the tone here  (which does have its ups
and downs), I would give PLUG a "reasonably nice" rating.
YMMV.
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Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz at acm.org