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Originally Posted by yunggie
(Post 5038741)
Just signed up and looked at a couple of logical questions, and what do I see? @!#?@$# answer to a noob.
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Well, I've seen a number of threads go wrong, and, almost always (like 95+ % of the time) the person asking the question has done something severely wrong. For example, asking a question that amounts to 'how do I get past Red Hat's service conditions and get updates without paying Red Hat's charges' (sometimes it is blatantly that, sometimes it may be ignorance of what Red Hat charges for and why it is legitimate and what the inferences are....and the fact that there are 100+ (or even 1000+...I've just made the number up, but there seems to be at least one every week or so) threads where this is discussed and the obvious '
Use Centos' answer is given).
Also, on the Red Hat theme, there have been a mysterious number of:
Q:Where can I get something that anyone with even a scintilla of nous would expect to find on Red Hat's website?
A: On their website
threads. I mean, really. I don't know why this is usually Red Hat, but it is.
Sometimes there are questions that are 'I've decided to use some inappropriate program for this application, now make it work for me' or 'I'm too lazy to read the man page, read it for me (now!!!!)' or 'Here is my homework. I'm not intending to do any work on it, apart from give the program a name'.
You can probably add to that a number of 'something went wrong, you can ask for all the evidence that you like, but I'm only going to tell you my tinfoil-hat theory and nothing else, and expect you to fix it', but they tend to go quietly.
Apart from the last, these questions tend to get somewhat brutal answers. You could say '...and, for good reason', but there is probably more to it than that. An explanation of why they are getting an answer in the style that they are wouldn't go amiss. And perhaps even a hint that since these are the most common types of, err, ill-fated thread, perhaps the OP wants to have a look at some other threads (or course, this is actually made easier by the fact that all threads entitled 'Urgent' are ill-fated threads) by means of a wonderful invention called 'search'.
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Originally Posted by yunggie
(Post 5038741)
This is the reason people use MS.
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No, its not. It really isn't. There are all sorts of historic factors in there, but the fact that you can ask ill-judged questions, such as questions that are explicitly prohibited in the T & C's of the website that you are asking them on and get reamed out for it isn't one of them.