Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2016-09-29 03:07
Prompted by a recent exchange, I want to say something about this BBoard, and the questions that are posed here.
I'd say that ANY question is acceptable. Even people who have very little expertise or experience deserve to be taken seriously, because sometimes their being given a wise word at an early stage is more powerful than their being given many wise words at a later stage.
That of course is just my opinion; but I think it might have general acceptance here.
But, when someone asks a question, and is answered, I personally think that the questioner owes it to the BBoard to take a responsible attitude to the exchange.
That is, to use the answer as a stimulus to their OWN continuing investigation of their problem. (That, of course, doesn't necessarily mean AGREEING with the answer.)
See, just as I'm not prepared to put up with my own students waiting about for ME to solve THEIR problems, I'm not prepared to let question-askers off the responsibility to engage with the BBoard as authors of their own development.
I'm not saying that they have to DEMONSTRATE that they're engaging. That would be asking too much. It's enough that they refrain from asking further, silly questions, the answers to which are very often available by simple web searches. That they sometimes ask such questions clearly demonstrates that they're not BEING SERIOUS. I won't put up with that.
Of course, asking PERTINENT questions is another matter; that gladdens the heart of anyone involved in such an exchange.
I'm now only an occasional visitor here. But I still say the level of discussion could be higher. Someone went on record as saying that the BBoard is more of a discussion 'over the garden fence' than anything more serious.
I think on the contrary it's more valuable than that. Who he?
Tony
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