- @tidbit: There's an overload of information in the Kiwi IRC image.
- This is confusing, I might remove it:
*Ask your question. Not asking is the best way to NOT get help*
- This is confusing also:
- Share implies give, maybe they want the code to be private.
- The message warns them about posting code, but why can't they post code directly, the IRC is about coding.
- I would use a simple warning/link, not code detection.
- I'd expect people to still omit code tags, but a smaller, more acceptable number.
- On the forum, how many first-time coders use code tags? Especially when there is no notification.
- @sinkfaze: Many people here aren't coders. They will see something in the forum, and not know the nature of what they're seeing e.g. phpBB code tags/unique html/images, and will have no conception of how they can do it themselves.
- @tidbit/sinkfaze: For the last 2 years I saw nothing to tell me 'please use code tags', and the tag help (BBCode help) is very hard to find, and only on the preview page. I tried to find it again today, and it took a short while, you hover over the word 'BBCode'. How many will have heard of BBCode?
- I specifically said that *right now* users see no reminder, i.e. 0 measures are currently in place.
- This is a tough issue, for this kind of thing I'd generally get multiple people on a team, over a long period, to consider and tweak the approach.
- I think I could tweak your ideas, I think you could tweak my ideas. Something related to how multiple users interpret something, by nature, benefits from multiple viewpoints.
- Also, I think only a small number have the kind of 'understanding' skills to be effective at this kind of task. It has little to do with intelligence or effort.
- Btw how do other websites handle this issue?
- Also, did you ever have *any* success? You both, and tank, make it sound like previous efforts were a total failure.
- Btw have you noticed meme culture, how hard but effective it is when you encapsulate an idea, I don't even find this particularly easy, but some people can do it.
- Don't you roll your eyes when you hear people complain that something relatively small or simple is impossible? Or when people fail for decades to achieve something, when next door has got it working?
- Comments like: 'oh, we've tried everything, compared to us, you don't know what you're talking about, take it from us, failure is assured, you have nothing to contribute'. I have my doubts. And you would too seeing it from my perspective.