[arch-general] wget

[angelinheavysyrup ‎]

On Wed, 02 May 2012 22:50:30 +0300, Don deJuan <donjuansjiz at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On 05/02/2012 12:44 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 15:28 -0400, Taylor Hedberg wrote:
>>> Jeremiah Dodds, Wed 2012-05-02 @ 15:18:03-0400:
>>>> A poking, or an RTFM, sure. All I'm saying is that what you posted
>>>> doesn't help the noob. RTFM helps the noob. Pointing out that this
>>>> place has nothing to do with Mint, even mockingly (even at Drepper
>>>> levels of intensity), helps the noob.
>>>>
>>>> "Making a joke" that is only a joke to people who know enough not to
>>>> do the thing the noob did does not help the noob.
>>>>
>>>> It's not your responsibility to help, it's also not your
>>>> responsibility to hinder. We were all dumb noobs once, and I for one
>>>> don't feel good if I plant misinformation in someones head,
>>>> intentionally or not.
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> Not replying at all is preferable to replying sarcastically in a manner
>>> that might be misconstrued (however naively) as serious advice.
>>
>> +1
>>
> seriously to funny if the OP would have taken my joke seriously it would  
> have/should have lead him to doing more research. Which is what they  
> were lacking, obviously by posting to Arch mailing lists. It is not like  
> I said rm -rf / or some malicious suggestion. The +1's are as pointless  
> and unhelpful to the OP as my "joke"
>
>
>

He has already got an answer to his question, the +1s are just votes  
against people
confusing new users.

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