Experience level ?

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(12th Oct, 2013 07:49 AM)Skywatch Wrote:  I'm only trying to think of a way where noobs are not frightened off Xbian due to the technical level of the answer to a quesstion/problem/issues that they bother to post on here. I have noticed that some just don't respond or return, they can't all be trolls can they?

Skywatch

@Skywatch

Yes in a wonderful world but without – say – an interactive web page that asks certain Linux questions and from the answers, deduces a rating score. 1 -5.
But also, how good is their English - so another interactive web page. Score 1-5.
But you have to remember that all answers are viewable by every person from novice to expert, so the answer should always be as simple as possible, so everyone, irrelevant of their skill base can understand.

Unfortunately, not all people will put the effort into solving an issue themselves, assuming that all software (even if it is free) has a hundred dedicated personal awaiting their problem and, some, almost expecting an immediate response.

I honestly don’t think new users are frightened off technical answers, as long as there are instructions that are easy to follow – the RPi was created as a learning device, so we add to that

Most new users are glad they EVEN got a response.

As Beta 1.2 shows, we are eliminating as much as possible (with software) the tedious problems that are commonly accounted but there will always be more.

So it’s far better to just rewrite the “Please read before you post” template to ask these questions: How good is your Linux/English skills and work from that. It would mean forcing people to refer to the Question to the Link before answering but…. It’s a start.

I also guess that most “noobs” would answer 0/0 anyway as that would get the simplest answer!!!

Just my make on things.