Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at vtSPAM.edu"> wrote:
>> Keep asking questions. Look at it from the perspective of someone just
>> finding POV-Ray. They may have the same question but, like so many
>> people, feel that they aren't ready to join in the community and start
>> asking them. Even simple questions give more experienced users time to
>> think about a problem again, and maybe come up with a new idea.
> 
> Some day you may even ask "how do I do X?" and a developer will answer "uh,
> you can't, but now that I think about it, it would be useful if you could".
> And POV4.1 gets the new feature :)
> 
> From what I heard in the FLOSS podcast, that's how many features were added
> back in POV2.0 days...
> 

Or, before a developer responds, someone else says "This is how you can 
do X." and the developer responds "Wow, that actually works?"

Either way, dialogs get people thinking. Even simple questions can 
create interesting discussions.

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