[wellylug] "The quart-annual top-posting debate"
Cliff Pratt
enkidu at cliffp.com
Wed Aug 10 19:46:54 NZST 2005
Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
>
> And I say blaming users is a cop-out. I'm not saying
> users are always right - that's something else. I'm
> saying users are never wrong.
>
User are *always* wrong. They are only there to provide
input or data that can't be automated. No other reason. If
it was possible to automate the task, they users would be
out of the door, fast.
>
> Saying someone is wrong implies there is some way they
> are supposed to be that they are failing to accomplish.
> I don't see that this is so.
>
There are there to do what the system demands, nothing else.
(Playing devil's advocate. I don't really believe this,
though there may be a smidgen of truth in it).
Cheers,
Cliff
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