Silence is Golden
Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2004-08-26 07:27:12 - Graham EllisSo why am I posting this, you may ask!
I was in Bristol yesterday and came back to see a whole mailbox full of messages from a forum on which I moderate a quiet backwater, concerning a new member who .... oh - it doesn't matter who she was or what her history was or what she did ... and I wondered how I should react. I have some views, some thoughts. But - it's not my forum, she wasn't even posting in my backwater ... better to write my views and post them to /dev/null.
There's often times when I'm training that I'm asked a question that could be given a very long and highly involved answer and I have the technical knowledge to give that complete answer. But it's quite usual for the questioner to be much better served by a shorter answer like "Yes" or "No" ;-)