Posted by member 5669 on 2003-03-23 00:15:55 link
maybe it's an example of what isn't possible. almost every community on the internet has this kind of problem: people who are brand new to the scene and want people to "catch them up" on everything that has happened and how everything works.
the very fact that people are lazy and don't want to do any reading/searching/looking for themselves anymore and people who are established in the scene or know what they are talking about are tired of holding the hand of every person who can't help themself.
i'm more than happy to help out newbies; give them tips on how to best go about things, tell them why they are getting a certain error, direct them to learning resources (tutorials, etc) and give them help on more advanced techniques that may not be covered in documentation. i will not, however, tell them exactly how to setup a module from scratch, build their theme for them, or tell them how to do every little thing when it is obvious they did no research for themself.
i'm very new to litestep (only a little over a year) and when i first started using it, i was dumbfounded and frustrated. i even made the mistake of posting some of the same dumb questions i now disdain. at the same time, i can't blame people for the responses they gave me because i didn't try to help myself. i went out, got some tutorials, read some documents, and learned how to use the basics of litestep on my own and it was much more gratifying than having someone tell me how to do it.
i suggest other users new to litestep do the same. go and look for the information and see if you can get it to work with your own two hands (or set of digits in this case). it will feel so much better to debug the config of a module yourself and have it work the way you want it to (not to mention understand how the module operates) than having someone right the code for you and send it to you.
the very fact that people are lazy and don't want to do any reading/searching/looking for themselves anymore and people who are established in the scene or know what they are talking about are tired of holding the hand of every person who can't help themself.
i'm more than happy to help out newbies; give them tips on how to best go about things, tell them why they are getting a certain error, direct them to learning resources (tutorials, etc) and give them help on more advanced techniques that may not be covered in documentation. i will not, however, tell them exactly how to setup a module from scratch, build their theme for them, or tell them how to do every little thing when it is obvious they did no research for themself.
i'm very new to litestep (only a little over a year) and when i first started using it, i was dumbfounded and frustrated. i even made the mistake of posting some of the same dumb questions i now disdain. at the same time, i can't blame people for the responses they gave me because i didn't try to help myself. i went out, got some tutorials, read some documents, and learned how to use the basics of litestep on my own and it was much more gratifying than having someone tell me how to do it.
i suggest other users new to litestep do the same. go and look for the information and see if you can get it to work with your own two hands (or set of digits in this case). it will feel so much better to debug the config of a module yourself and have it work the way you want it to (not to mention understand how the module operates) than having someone right the code for you and send it to you.