Tom's rant re suggestion

[Martin Dixon]

Hi Tom:)
Your rants struck a chord - I have coding background (18+ years -
operator, coding, systems and support with ICL) and
have recently briefly amended html to make page layouts fit better on my
(btck) web site, but I am cautious of doing a mischief to others
valuable work.
As you may be aware of my recent efforts (Saucy doc review) I will use
Gwibber as an example -
I could probably have found the coding points at which the Gwibber lens
was mentioned
but my ME leaves me doubting the sense of "fiddling in the dark" when
making an on page comment and I find bugs "bug" me seriously.
So what's my point - if you are serious I am willing to trial any
suggestions (post 13.10 release) to find a way of making this suggestion
user friendly.
Hope this makes sense.  Martin


On 14/09/13 19:19, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> I tend to think it's harder to post a bug-report than to edit the
> page, such as to leave a note at the end of the page or just after the
> bit that didn't work. 
>
> However i am beginning to believe what Jonathon just pointed out.  I
> think perhaps 2 main reason but probably others too;
> 1.  even a lot of trained documenters can't cope with coding, even
> wiki-markup is scary to a lot of folks
> 2.  people are too shy and worry about messing things up if they type
> in a couple of words into a page
> < off-topic rant>
> Perhaps feeling they have to be submissive to some higher authority or
> something.  It drives me nuts.  I'd hoped it was just in my country
> but i'm beginning to think even people in democracies (if there are
> any) bow to their 'superiors'.
> </ off-topic rant>
>
> <new rant>
> It's as though people have never heard of or used wikipedia or wiki's,
> as though they are all tooo new despite having been around since the
> last century. 
> </ new rant>
>
> Anyway, the point is that these tags clearly come from a higher
> authority than an average user so they will give sheeple and normal
> users much greater confidence in the pages that are not tagged as
> being for unsupported versions.  It will also give normal users the
> correct impression, that they can complain to the higher authority and
> it encourages them to find one of the many ways they could do so.  So
> it benefits 2 groups we need to reach without harming those that
> already "get it".   
> Regards from
> Tom :) 
>
>

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