Worst practise - asking a question without searching...
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Why is it that people keep asking the same questions on the Q/A forums?!!!! It's appalling and tedious the number of people who can't be bothered just to search CP articles and old Q/A's!! The current recurring question appears to be how to send email in C#...can people pleeaasee search!? It's awful practise not to! :mad: P.S. Sorry I had to rant...and CP Lounge is blocked from where IO am atm... :(
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Why is it that people keep asking the same questions on the Q/A forums?!!!! It's appalling and tedious the number of people who can't be bothered just to search CP articles and old Q/A's!! The current recurring question appears to be how to send email in C#...can people pleeaasee search!? It's awful practise not to! :mad: P.S. Sorry I had to rant...and CP Lounge is blocked from where IO am atm... :(
Yes, I understand you, and many other questions would deserve the standard RTFM reply, but in these cases I am usually happy just downvoting them. Edit: Thank you. I was just wondering how long would be to get this post downvoted. :laugh:
modified on Thursday, March 3, 2011 8:41 AM
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Why is it that people keep asking the same questions on the Q/A forums?!!!! It's appalling and tedious the number of people who can't be bothered just to search CP articles and old Q/A's!! The current recurring question appears to be how to send email in C#...can people pleeaasee search!? It's awful practise not to! :mad: P.S. Sorry I had to rant...and CP Lounge is blocked from where IO am atm... :(
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Why is it that people keep asking the same questions on the Q/A forums?!!!! It's appalling and tedious the number of people who can't be bothered just to search CP articles and old Q/A's!! The current recurring question appears to be how to send email in C#...can people pleeaasee search!? It's awful practise not to! :mad: P.S. Sorry I had to rant...and CP Lounge is blocked from where IO am atm... :(
If they couldn't be bothered to google for answers, do you really think they'll bother to search this site. They would have to move their mouse all the way to the top right of the menu bar, click, and then actually type in a search. Oh yeah... they would also have to click on the magnifying glass button... Way too much effort involved... :)
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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If they couldn't be bothered to google for answers, do you really think they'll bother to search this site. They would have to move their mouse all the way to the top right of the menu bar, click, and then actually type in a search. Oh yeah... they would also have to click on the magnifying glass button... Way too much effort involved... :)
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
Yes true but instead they can be bothered to go to the menu bar, click the post question link, type in their question, tag it, write the body (well sometimes they can't be bothered with that ;P ) and then click the post button and then spend ages waiting for an answer...surely searching is less effort? :doh:
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Yes true but instead they can be bothered to go to the menu bar, click the post question link, type in their question, tag it, write the body (well sometimes they can't be bothered with that ;P ) and then click the post button and then spend ages waiting for an answer...surely searching is less effort? :doh:
No, searching requires at least some thinking, which the worst of them do not want to do. That is why they re-ask the same question when someone only gives them links to descriptions of how to do something. They want complete, fully functional and debugged code. :sigh:
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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No, searching requires at least some thinking, which the worst of them do not want to do. That is why they re-ask the same question when someone only gives them links to descriptions of how to do something. They want complete, fully functional and debugged code. :sigh:
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
Very true ;P A bit sad though when you think about it... :~
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Why is it that people keep asking the same questions on the Q/A forums?!!!! It's appalling and tedious the number of people who can't be bothered just to search CP articles and old Q/A's!! The current recurring question appears to be how to send email in C#...can people pleeaasee search!? It's awful practise not to! :mad: P.S. Sorry I had to rant...and CP Lounge is blocked from where IO am atm... :(
I'm guilty of doing this, admittedly. Or, I'll do a search and can't find it, post the question, and a few hours, search again. It would be that on the second search I find what I'm looking for... :| Live and learn, I guess.
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I'm guilty of doing this, admittedly. Or, I'll do a search and can't find it, post the question, and a few hours, search again. It would be that on the second search I find what I'm looking for... :| Live and learn, I guess.
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Why is it that people keep asking the same questions on the Q/A forums?!!!! It's appalling and tedious the number of people who can't be bothered just to search CP articles and old Q/A's!! The current recurring question appears to be how to send email in C#...can people pleeaasee search!? It's awful practise not to! :mad: P.S. Sorry I had to rant...and CP Lounge is blocked from where IO am atm... :(
I agree but I think there is a limit to this. You can tell when someone is tossing the effort of learning over the fence but you have to understand people have different learning styles. Reading documentation doesn't work for everyone, hence pod casts and training videos. Pair programming combines visual and auditory information exchange that help to reinforce concepts and methods. Basically what I'm saying is, not everyone is on YOUR level of expertise and they may not learn the same way you do, so don't be a dick and use RTFM as your catch-all for swatting away social interactions. That dumb ass that wants you to show them what a SQL insert looks like for the 4th time will probably get promoted to product manager. :)