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Originally Posted by JohnBoucher
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Originally Posted by JaneYoung
I'm asking what it would be like if mentors did not participate in CD. Another way to gain a perspective in thinking about it is to go back 5 and 8 years and apply the same question. If mentors had not been contributing to CD over the past few years, what would that impact be? Let's make it even more specific and say engineers.
Also, what would be the impact on the development of technical and organizational white papers if mentors and engineers were not and had not been contributing? Or stopped?
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What, indeed?
Would the general quality of the answers people received to their questions go down? This may be preaching to the choir, but it really befronts me mightily when people answer a question with wrong information, because they don't know (they why are you answering?) or did not look it up (again...then why are you answering?) or are just guessing (then why...
you know).
Or, would the students predict this effect and impose martial law, chastising those who post "junk" and praising those who post truth and fact and research and wisdom and insight?
I fear the former and hope the latter.
A bad answer is worse than a wrong answer. The blind leading the dumb is no way to do this. Do not answer a question on CD unless you know - really know - the correct answer and can defend it intelligently.
Certain forums - chit-chat, rumors, etc are exempt of course. I'm thinking primarily of the technical forums.
Do we generally respect the responses given by the likes of
Dave Lavery, Alan Anderson, Andy Baker, John V Neun, and several others?
OK, what do virtually every one of their posts have in common? They are accurate, competent and reasoned answers. Not off-the-hip, just guessing, "I Think" answers.
My 2 cents.
Don