Few bits about netiquette (was: Drawing an arc)

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 07:14:50PM +0200, Daniel wrote:
> I meant to imply a *close* relation. Anyway, I think as long as there is an
> obvious relation why you want to do something in LyX, like LaTeX stuff, it
> seems to me that those questions are "okay" on the list. And some people
> seem to happily answer them as well. I guess
> 
> "This list is for questions on how to get LyX working and how to use LyX"
> 
> is (intentionally) a bit vague.

Agreed. The fact that other lyx users are happy to respond to tikz question
already shows it within reasonable perimeter of possible topics. 
If one does not like tikz question there is nothing easier than to
ignore it and move to the next thread.

> (Unlike, say, that bottom posting is preferable.)

Good point, it maybe worth of repeating once in a while that our list
netiquette nicely asks for 
a) bottom posting and
b) not quoting irrelevant parts of the messages in the reply. 

Advantages of both points become very clear once there is some need
to discuss some issue at depth. Alas, even some developers are lazy
to respect others time and ignore it ;)


What our netiquette indeed does not cover is kindness and I find
it impossible to impose it from outside. What can we do as a
community is to decide that we might not want to scare user
newbies -- if you the only thing you have to say is RTFM, just
leave the thread and move to another one. 

I must confess though that in cases where someone is repeatedly
outsourcing his effort to *at least try* to find some solution on
his own, the RTFM might be approprite input... In my view of course,
but if there is some community sense that we should try to declare
some positive approach in the netiquette, we are free to discuss it
on this list and set our boundaries :)

Pavel