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Originally Posted by LouisLoh View Post
But as I've said, the opportunity cost of not providing spoonfeeding is the loss of many non-geeky customers. It's the choice of the community, as mentioned earlier - either spoonfeed and allow user base to grow as rapidly as possible, even though each user may not be that independent (and I understand that this can be a burden for the community), or ensure that each and every user is responsible and thus putting off many new users, but in the exchange get a more cohesive community.

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Ultimately, your choice.
Unfortunately, it's not ultimately my choice. It's the independent choice of every developer and every user here. I would love to help new users but 1) I don't own an n900 2) I have no idea how to develop/code in the slightest (even though reading the forums has helped with understanding more than I used to know). To slightly repeat what I said earlier in another way: I don't think the community can withstand the burden of spoon feeding right now. It might grow the user base, but the noise generated would cause those people we need most to completely ignore the threads and therefore stop any help from reaching users at all.
 

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