Re: Forum Is A Free For All?

I think that's what kept Cake going, a friendly community and fast
response.

I never complain anyone asks stupid question. It's about learning, not
to feel ashamed of asking. as long as it isn't spamming or asking the
same over and over..and over..

On Feb 5, 7:40 am, hill180 <hill...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I did notice some really basic questions that a tutorial could have answered, in those cases, I would recommend what some members did, point them right to the tutorials.  As a community it would be better then a blanket RTFM, in my humble opinion.
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> I know I could have been part of those "people" seeking help as I am new to the forum, although I am new to CakePHP, I am not new to web coding.  I did my due diligence with the manual website, and Google (Bing.. :)   Ok I never used Bing, but if I did it would have been the same Google Results).  I even posted my code when relevant.  Side Note:  The two books I have on CakePHP are now dated with support for 1.2 with many of elements of the API changed.  Hard to understand a change log when you don't understand the fundamentals.  The best teacher was Andrew Perk on youtube.com.  
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> On Feb 4, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Dave Maharaj wrote:
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> > I do not know if it's just me, but I have been on the group 2 and a half years now and when I first joined I got told "how to ask a question" if you have code show it, errors show it, if you cannot figure something out show what your code is now, what you have tried.
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> > Lately the board is full of "I don't know how show me" and not sure if anyone has noticed this also but this feeding a stry dog only brings the dog back for more and more. And people just keep going on and on with it.  Last week I have pretty much started just opening email , seeing 26 emails and straight to the garbage.
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> > Help group yes! Help me with this please, I can't seem to figure out how to……. I have tried… looked …
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> > I'm building site, no how to do so help show me help now and when your done ftp it up for me too? I just can't get over that when a question gets asked now no code not even showing an attempt and the post gets 20 responses.
> > Whats the point of learning it if all you have to do is get 20 people doing it for you.
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> > Today:
> > So I need capcha confirm for in submit in popup to send show me how!
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> > Tomorrow:
> > AJAX Logon show me how
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> > Sunday:
> > Good job guys take the day off.
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> > Moday:
> > TBD….
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> > Cheers everyone J
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