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Posting Guidelines |
The Cucumber discussion forum has thousands of users. We have come up with a few guidelines to improve communication efficiency. It can often be difficult to keep up with all the great posts on this forum, but if you follow these guidelines you're more likely to be heard and get a reply.
We have a machine learning intelligent filter that will automatically reject your message if it detects that you haven't been searching the archive for answers in the past 10 minutes. The filter is tested with Cucumber and therefore guaranteed to be working.
Consider this discussion:
Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
Top-posting.
What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
If you make the effort to place your follow-up remarks below the most relevant section of the text you are replying to, then reading the conversation becomes a lot easier to read than the above. As a result more people are likely to join the conversation, and there will be fewer misunderstandings.
So instead of "top posting", please use interleaved answers:
What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Top-posting. Why is top-posting such a bad thing? Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
The Cucumber discussion forum is used to discuss many topics. To help group members quickly decide whether or not a post is of interest to them, please use a prefix in your subject. Here are some examples:
- [JVM] How can I exclude certain scenarios from a run?
- [Ruby] Step Definition doesn't match my step
- [JS] Has anyone used Cucumber-JS with Karma?
If you have a question, don't reply to an existing (irrelevant) message. Start a new topic instead.
The forum has thousands of users, and demanding a reply from a particular person leads to inefficient communication. It is also considered rude. Never email people privately for help.
For a more in-depth explanation of this rule, please read this post.