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[[!meta title="How to inform people about better solutions?"]]
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I'm wondering how to handle the following social-political-technial
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situation and would be interested in your opinion!
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## Situation
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Imagine you are an expert in some topic, let's use knitting for the
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example. Further assume you read posts in a lot of different
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knitting techniques forums.
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There is one specific forum driven by a specific
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knitting needle manufacturer, in which a lot of newbies post into
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and hope to do some good knitting with the manufacturers knitting needles.
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## The problem
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Now, as you are the expert, you are aware that the knitting needles
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produced by this manufacturer are obsolete and contain bugs that
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makes knitting way more difficult than it needs to be.
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But you know there is a different product out there that does the
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job way better and costs the same.
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Now you feel responsible to let those newbies know about the better
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knitting needles, but **how would you tell them?**
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### Posting to the forum
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Posting to that specific forum that there are better knitting needles
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out there more than once may be seen as an abuse of the forum, because it's
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still driven by the obsolete manufacturer.
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### Posting to individuals
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Replying to an individual when a question was asked within a forum
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is usually seen as bad behaviour and may be interpreted by the
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manufacturer as a indirect attack.
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### What's the best solution?
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To me it looks like neither of the two options are good ones.
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Thus I'd like to [[hear your proposal to solve this situation|about]].
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[[!tag sysadmin unix]]
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