http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htmlEric Steven Raymond wrote:[amv creators] have a reputation for meeting simple questions with what looks like hostility or arrogance. It sometimes looks like we're reflexively rude to newbies and the ignorant. But this isn't really true.
What we are, unapologetically, is hostile to people who seem to be unwilling to think or to do their own homework before asking questions. People like that are time sinks — they take without giving back, they waste time we could have spent on another question more interesting and another person more worthy of an answer. We call people like this "losers" (and for historical reasons we sometimes spell it "lusers").
i was looking through phpbb and found the link on somebodies sig.
note: i changed "hackers" to "amv creators," hence the bars
*still reading*
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