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.

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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If the participants were really out of line, not helpful, derailing, making personal attacks, you get the idea, then one option is to point the moderators to the thread.

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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You could simply report them to moderators using the REPORT button in the lower-right corner of those posts. Maybe a moderator will step in and will try to adjust things.

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That was you first post?

And your last one too?

Did you even ask a question? Many here will try to help.

I'm sorry but you're living in a fantasy world if you think MS forums can't be rude as well. There are good people and bad people on the internet as well as in all forums and irc channels. But since we are talking linux forums, I've seen many helpful answers to newbies and they out weighted the rude replies.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_nFBnwfl30

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.

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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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'.


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.

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The government should do something...

They have. It's just not what the OP wanted.

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.