Well found this:
I'm just wondering what you guys think, do you guys think that this is true? And if yes, can anything be done to change this?

I tend to ignore troll posts unless really bored.

well obviosuly he's wrong about the asking part, but as far as the response to trolling... sometimes yes. It does happen a fair bit when trolls do that. It's basically that many people want to clinically prove that this person is an idiot, and they are totally wrong. and how do you do that? by going in to huge depth about everything theysay is wrong. there have been some impressibly long responses to posts that we'd rather were just ignored.

Yes. Trolling is as old as the internet and the general consensus is that trolling is a negative phenomenon that tends to drive people away, not get them to help or respond positively.

I'd tend to disagree with the above post, it does seem that a troll wil get an answer a lot quicker than someone who simply asks a question, though I'd expect someone who asks a question and also shows they have already done a lot of research towards solving the problem already might get an answer a lot quicker than someone who just says "How do you do X?". However the troller would loose any respect he might have as a person and user of the forums, also in the replies their tends to be quite a lot of abuse and sarcasm

I think that such typical end-users don't really care much for respect in the hacker communit(y|ies)--<emphasis>they just want to get the job done</emphasis>. Both in terms of what they want their computer to do, and how to get the help they need.

They would probably benefit from reading http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html; I think we need to tell them. And I think we need to demonstrate that we actually do want to help, so that they actually come back and say "I don't get the man page".

I've never really paid attention to the trolling-for-help.

my $twocents = 0.02;

--Jonas Kölker

ithink is is probably true
most liux lusers are super anal ga ...clovens

even if oyou try to ask a smart question te dont really care

they r just trying to fall all over themselves \to provr ghow superiopr they are
and have there bogus cloven measures like
" reoputqation " n stuff

the forums get filled with clovens super quick
it is a waste of space being here

f u n ur bs
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commander-cb

Did you not notice the last post in this thread was over 17 years ago? If you post again, you might check the date on the last post and use a spell checker.

Dead thread resurrected with gibberish. Thanks.

I saw this on Reddit just this week. It’s an old idea.

My answer is that it works only if you can define the question properly, and if you can do that then it’s more effective to just ask it.

Otherwise, people answer with conflicting ideas about what they think the question was. That happens here a lot.

If interested in horror then try Sauna(2008). It's quite a good Finish movie set in 1590s

LOl wrong thread?

I assume that was meant for one of these two:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...be-4175706846/

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...-watch-697994/