I've been reading and contributing to this site for over six years, and one thing has changed for sure, the quality of the commenters. It's not what they say, but how they say it. They like to show their prowess by pointing out the flaws in other people's hints, and presume they know every possible thing about every possible thing, in every possible configuration, with every possible peripheral, etc etc. I prefer to look at the hints not as 100% rock solid take it to the bank info, but rather as points of experimentation and discussion. One, the volume of hints has increased significantly due to the popularity of the site and the OS, so robg can't test everything, and two, many more novices are feeling like they can contribute.

I think the drop in 'quality' you've noticed has several causes. I know, lets get all the people who post convoluted ways to do things through Terminal include the much simpler UI methods in their hints shall we, before they're accepted? Who cares that some people may prefer to work that way, I don't, so will start to insult the hinter for daring to suggest I should. If others use other methods to do the same thing, great, and it's good if they list them in the comments, but the first reply in particular was stupid and unnecessary. He's not writing an OS X manual, he's pointing out one handy thing he's found that people might not have noticed. There is no requirement whatsoever for any hinter to point out the alternative ways of achieving the same thing. The editors on the other hand have other resources to call upon, presumably. While of course the hinter should strive to be as accurate as he can, he can normally only go by what he remembers of the previous version, as by definition he can't check now. The ONLY misinformation in the hint is the idea that it's new to 10.6, which anyway I'd regard more as the editor's job to check for than the hinter's. Rubbish! I agree the quality of (some of) the hints here has dropped, but this isn't an example of that. I'd suggest the rudeness is just an emotional (possible subconscious) reaction to a perception of a recent flood of questionable hints on the site. For such a short hint, it really packs a lot of misinformation punch!Īll that being said, I acknowledge that a lot of the corrective comments could have been phrased more tactfully. The (implied) claim that the author has mentioned all the other ways to get the information (which they fell far short of doing, as is obvious from all the 'mean' comments). The claim that the behavior is new to 10.6. This particular hint contains a lot of misinformation. I've been reading the site for nearly a decade (has it really been around that long?) and it does seem like the quality of the hints has taken a distinct downward turn this last year or so. Whenever I see misinformation in a hint, I feel obliged to point it out so that Rob will hopefully add a correction to the hint (or at least readers of the hint will have a chance to be informed by the comments, assuming they read that far…). I don't think anyone is being a snob - the reason I (and I presume many other members) love this site so much is the high quality of the information here.

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