From my experience Camerongray is more knowledgable in many areas than most of the other 'helpers' that appear in chat. The "warnings" and "discipline" so far seem to be designed to try to preserve authority and the other helpers sense of self-import rather than preserve any amount of high-quality help. While the latter may be the desired goal, Driving away helpful, knowledgable members only works towards the former goal.
His corrections- which are easily researched and confirmed- get shot down as fallacies without a second thought. He corrects not to ostracize, but to try to prevent the spread of fallacious information, because it reflects badly on the group; for example, stating that Windows Home Premium doesn't have Aero is a fallacy easily determined by Google, is something many people that could request help are going to know- once that comes out- if nobody tries to correct it, those seeking help might start to have second thoughts.
The only thing accomplished so far is to create a cabal of reasonably competent helpers that refuse to ever learn anything new because they are under the specious idea that people younger than them, or members that just joined the channel, cannot possibly know more than them. The fact that occasionally people will join the channel and get help is almost incidental.
Obviously I generally don't join the channel either. Usually because, like Camerongray, the urge to correct misinformation is strong. I am, however, cognescent enough to know that such attempts will cause nobody to learn anything and will probably just result in some sort of sidebar argument about it, or my favourite, "you're wrong, I will prove it by banning you, and making up a rule that we've totally always had in place to cover it".
Camerongray is younger than me and knows a lot more about running Servers, and who knows what else, than I do.
See, it's not that hard at all.
Thank you very much! I'll try to hang around on the forum more now, seems a lot friendlier than the chat has become! ComputerHope.com/forum, welcome to my pinned tabs!
So this makes you pin the tab but me suggesting you lurk and post in the forum more often for something like 4 years doesn't?
