Why do the answers have to be so hateful?
Just signed up and looked at a couple of logical questions, and what do I see? @!#?@$# answer to a noob.
This is the reason people use MS. Goodbye. |
Someone on the internet was rude?? I'm shocked! SHOCKED, I say!!!
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I'm sure that "attitudes" don't exist in MS forums.
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care to point me to the thread?
Not so I can go all vigilante or anything like that... perhaps I can provide balance and answer the question. |
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Furthermore, yunggie, you could certainly have been more constructive about this. You may or may not have had a point about the right way to talk to "noobs", but you haven't provided enough information to start even discussing it. |
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Did you even ask a question? Many here will try to help. |
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But there are times when an OP doesn't ask for help. When something doesn't go well in their linux system, they just start a thread saying linux sucks because this doesn't work or linux can't do this. In this instance the linux purists will defend their favorite OS against the rude OPs. |
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I'm not one for censorship but I feel this thread ought to just be deleted as it is obviously an attempt to drop a negative comment into search engine results and the like.
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I get the feeling the OP had some issue and was upset. As to the real original post or user name I can't guess.
I still think LQ is one of the nicest places to visit. |
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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'. Quote:
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The government should do something...
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Some people take things to heart, some people read things into posts that are not there, when you combine these things with answers people don't want to hear (actually read) some people start getting mouthy. Unfortunately it's part of being a mere mortal.
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I can just say a huh it cant be true... LQ helped me a way long when i was a newbie, though i still think i am, the more i get used too of linux. :)
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I think of my posts here maybe 0.5% have been asking questions, and I could easily have a considerable larger post count if I didn't avoid certain threads.
A lot of the time my decision to post can come down to a few things. "URGENT - Help Me Install Squid" Usually comes down to "I've faked my way into a job as a linux admin, and now my boss has "called" me on it." "Help, I've some issues around my Squid ACL", more likely to get looked at. Obvious Homework without an attempt at a solution "I write script count number of "the" in file, what commands I use?". Nope! GoogleSolve - Where I can get three of four plausible answers to the OP from Google and they haven't tried anything. Even worse if there's "I can't find answer on Google, URGENT help me" in the thread. LQSolve - Where the thread has like 5 similar threads, sometimes with identical titles that contain solutions. Fine, read those 5, come back with a real question. English as a second language. This one will get me into trouble. I guage whether I want to respond depending on the English used in the question and where appropriate subsequent replies. There have been cases here where I've been reading and not even understanding the question. While the OP is doing their best, I don't want to have to get into a situation where I'm having to explain basic english and concepts along with complex answers. Overall, I think the answers on here are usually fairly balanced depending on what's been asked for. If anyone thinks otherwise then that's what the "Report" button is for! Believe me, the moderators here are more active than on many forums. I'm sure all "Reports" get looked at. |
WRT the above post, please see this tutorial as it covers many of the same points. And charmingly done, too!
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OP's post has puzzled me from the start.
LQ is easily one of the friendliest tech places on the internet with one of the best signal-to-noise ratios you will find. I am certain that OP was grinding an ax. |
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