Re: Definitive List of Every Looper Ever Made

["loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

On every online group that exists for any length of time, there is the 
problem (for oldbies)
of newbies asking questions that have been answered time and time again.

It's a pain when you realize that newbies have not done their homework and 
checked out the archives
or the rest of the site.

That being said, it is also a fact of life in all life that newbies have 
questions that take up time.
Several times when I started I tried Kim's patience by not knowing the 
site 
or how it worked.
I felt bad about it, but I learned.

A certain amount of naivite is the lay of the land when one is new to 
something.
A certain amount of patience is required when dealing with some one who is 
just learning about something.

When I see that this latest thread has dominated the list in the past few 
days with back and forths about the way the thread should have been done
I think two things:

1) someone can make the positive suggestiong to forward the list to the 
Tools of the Trade page (which is very incomplete due to lack
or our own input).

2)  people who are irritated by the thread don't need to read it.

It is, for me, personally, just as irritating to read post after post of 
people being reactive to criticisms on both sides as it is to
think,  "Oh, damn,  why didn't that newbie do their homework."

Let's put our energy into either teaching new people on our list with 
compassion and patience or starting new fascinating threads so there is 
something else to read besides.
Re: Definitive List of Every Looper Ever Made

Rick Walker