Don't know why my question is closed
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
kind of laziness mixed with weariness
I don't think so. I have seen some members post irrelevant answers to questions, and report it as unclear at the same time - as shown by the list of reporters when you refresh the page.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
post irrelevant answers to questions, and report it as unclear at the same time
That's a kind of behavior I hadn't noticed yet...very disturbing and I think should be discussed by higher (than me at least) ranks...
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It's generic text. If you look at the question itself, it says:
Closed because the post is not clear, or is incomplete and has not been phrased in a way that allows it to be fully understood.. Reported by Wes Aday, digimanus on Sunday, August 16, 2015 7:35pm.
Which is a little more sensible. Personally, I don't like the "I don't understand this question, let's close it" attitude of some members - If you don't understand it, explain why and ask for clarification. Closing the question just kills any conversation, but...it feeds egos, and may give rep points to the reporters. I'd suggest that it would be better to raise this here: http://www.codeproject.com/suggestions.aspx[^] where the admins will see it.
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Thanks for the comment. I'm agree with you. If my question is not clear why they didn't check that with me, rather reporting and closing down? That's why I expect from a community people. :)
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First of all this not an article. It's a question. If my question is not clear it's better to clarify it. I like to see that, as a community, if it's not clear share the thoughts and get clarify from the original poster, rather closing it. In the community there can be people who are well experienced as well as nothing at all. :)
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Would make things clear if you give an example indicating these: Given input: ... Expected output: ... Actual output: ... Things I tried: ...
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First of all this not an article. It's a question. If my question is not clear it's better to clarify it. I like to see that, as a community, if it's not clear share the thoughts and get clarify from the original poster, rather closing it. In the community there can be people who are well experienced as well as nothing at all. :)
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Agree with Griff. Your question is lacking information, which a bit of communication would have fixed. Regarding your question, a textbox is a shape of it's own, are you doing the find on the page containing the textbox, or in the textbox itself?
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
kind of laziness mixed with weariness
I don't think so. I have seen some members post irrelevant answers to questions, and report it as unclear at the same time - as shown by the list of reporters when you refresh the page.
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I saw many replies which are not relevant at all and still moving ahead. I can't see that my question is weird or incomplete comparing to those. So now I don't have even a chance to improve my question. More like this is people chasing on points and stuff in the community, rather helping others :)
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There is some inconsistency with the system... On site the reasoning is a bit different (and more understandable)
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Closed because the post is not clear, or is incomplete and has not been phrased in a way that allows it to be fully understood..
It is happening often that people do not comment on why the question is unclear (kind of laziness mixed with weariness), and only report it... Do not take it personally - try to improve it instead...
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Thanks for the comment. Nothing personal at all. But without a discussion how I know that what is unclear to those reporters? Honestly I can't see anything unclear in my question, as I see :). And now I don't have a chance to improve my question too, since reporters just said it's not clear.
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Would make things clear if you give an example indicating these: Given input: ... Expected output: ... Actual output: ... Things I tried: ...
Thanks for the comment. Yes I can, but I don't think that anyone can't understand what I said. :) If someone really want to see an example or something I've done why they didn't ask me about it? What they did was simply report, and admin closed the thread. I'm in no where now. :)
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First of all this not an article. It's a question. If my question is not clear it's better to clarify it. I like to see that, as a community, if it's not clear share the thoughts and get clarify from the original poster, rather closing it. In the community there can be people who are well experienced as well as nothing at all. :)
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My question did not get answered, but down-voted by four users(or may be two, 2 points got deducted 2 times, total four points) No one even bothered to tell me what was the problem in the question :confused: May be they did not get my question. As it was my first question here on CP, so it might possible that I couldn't explain my question clearly. But they should have asked me to explain it more before down-voting. But out of all the users of CP no one tried to answer the question, except one user who commented on it and asked me "what I've done until now to solve the problem" [My Question]
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Agree with Griff. Your question is lacking information, which a bit of communication would have fixed. Regarding your question, a textbox is a shape of it's own, are you doing the find on the page containing the textbox, or in the textbox itself?
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Thanks for the comment. If someone not clear with the information that I've provided it's better to ask me, isn't it? That's the way we can improve the community. Now it's reported and closed and I can't do anything. :) Regarding my question. Yes, as you said rather dealing with as simple content in the page I've check for all the shapes in the document. In that way I was able to resolve my question myself.
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Thanks for the comment. Yes I can, but I don't think that anyone can't understand what I said. :) If someone really want to see an example or something I've done why they didn't ask me about it? What they did was simply report, and admin closed the thread. I'm in no where now. :)
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CodingLover wrote:
What they did was simply report, and admin closed the thread
Admin didn't close the thread - it was closed automatically as a result of the "unclear" votes. This is part of the system which removes inappropriate material (abuse, plagiarism, and spam mostly) without admins being involved directly - and thus quickly, since it doesn't need 24 hour admins! :laugh:
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My question did not get answered, but down-voted by four users(or may be two, 2 points got deducted 2 times, total four points) No one even bothered to tell me what was the problem in the question :confused: May be they did not get my question. As it was my first question here on CP, so it might possible that I couldn't explain my question clearly. But they should have asked me to explain it more before down-voting. But out of all the users of CP no one tried to answer the question, except one user who commented on it and asked me "what I've done until now to solve the problem" [My Question]
That's the worst thing. CP is a community build up on each other, by not voting up-down on the content. I don't know why people really doing it.
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CodingLover wrote:
What they did was simply report, and admin closed the thread
Admin didn't close the thread - it was closed automatically as a result of the "unclear" votes. This is part of the system which removes inappropriate material (abuse, plagiarism, and spam mostly) without admins being involved directly - and thus quickly, since it doesn't need 24 hour admins! :laugh:
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Or really, I didn't knew that CP is such advance forum. :) Thanks for the update.
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First of all this not an article. It's a question. If my question is not clear it's better to clarify it. I like to see that, as a community, if it's not clear share the thoughts and get clarify from the original poster, rather closing it. In the community there can be people who are well experienced as well as nothing at all. :)
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Whatever you may think of the rules over here on CodeProject, they are a hundred times worse on StackOverflow. I've been flamed over there many times, sometimes even for just asking a question. I even got flamed for answering a question because someone didn't understand my answer so downvoted the answer. Don't take anything personally. Keep up the good work, keep being helpful and keep being a good citizen of CodeProject. Your input is appreciated and absolutely vital to this community :)
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My question did not get answered, but down-voted by four users(or may be two, 2 points got deducted 2 times, total four points) No one even bothered to tell me what was the problem in the question :confused: May be they did not get my question. As it was my first question here on CP, so it might possible that I couldn't explain my question clearly. But they should have asked me to explain it more before down-voting. But out of all the users of CP no one tried to answer the question, except one user who commented on it and asked me "what I've done until now to solve the problem" [My Question]
In the case of your question, Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan was right - you don't actually ask a question, you just state your task - so he asked you what you had tried. That's important for a couple of reasons: 1) We aren't here to do peoples homework or paid-work for them. So when you post a task without any show of effort or specific question we want to know what is going on. Because we get a lot of people trying to get us to do it all for them! 2) Unless we know what you have tried, we will likely suggest stuff that is irrelevant - because you tried it and it didn't work, or it doesn't work in the context of the rest of your project. The point is, we don't know what you are doing unless you tell us: we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind. All we get to work with is exactly what you type. So trying to make your question concise doesn't often work, because we don't have any context for the question. All you said was "I want to do this" without trying to explain why it's difficult for you! :laugh:
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Whatever you may think of the rules over here on CodeProject, they are a hundred times worse on StackOverflow. I've been flamed over there many times, sometimes even for just asking a question. I even got flamed for answering a question because someone didn't understand my answer so downvoted the answer. Don't take anything personally. Keep up the good work, keep being helpful and keep being a good citizen of CodeProject. Your input is appreciated and absolutely vital to this community :)
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
Thanks. I don't want to take anything personal. :) My point is these things is not good for a community. What if this happen to a newbie? They'll left the community for sure. We need a much better bond than this rather chasing those voting and all. I've seen a lot doing different things just to collect points :D
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Whatever you may think of the rules over here on CodeProject, they are a hundred times worse on StackOverflow. I've been flamed over there many times, sometimes even for just asking a question. I even got flamed for answering a question because someone didn't understand my answer so downvoted the answer. Don't take anything personally. Keep up the good work, keep being helpful and keep being a good citizen of CodeProject. Your input is appreciated and absolutely vital to this community :)
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
I gave up on SO years ago: if you aren't part of the "ruling clique" then if you disagree with the establishment, your answers disappear. And sometimes the other answer magically changes to include what you said...strange that... :laugh:
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First of all this not an article. It's a question. If my question is not clear it's better to clarify it. I like to see that, as a community, if it's not clear share the thoughts and get clarify from the original poster, rather closing it. In the community there can be people who are well experienced as well as nothing at all. :)
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I looked-up you subject (replace text inside Word's shapes) and found a lot of ideas how to do it (simple Selection do not contain the shapes and not the text inside shapes)... You should do some Google, or reopen the question to let me (or others) to point you to the right direction...
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In the case of your question, Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan was right - you don't actually ask a question, you just state your task - so he asked you what you had tried. That's important for a couple of reasons: 1) We aren't here to do peoples homework or paid-work for them. So when you post a task without any show of effort or specific question we want to know what is going on. Because we get a lot of people trying to get us to do it all for them! 2) Unless we know what you have tried, we will likely suggest stuff that is irrelevant - because you tried it and it didn't work, or it doesn't work in the context of the rest of your project. The point is, we don't know what you are doing unless you tell us: we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind. All we get to work with is exactly what you type. So trying to make your question concise doesn't often work, because we don't have any context for the question. All you said was "I want to do this" without trying to explain why it's difficult for you! :laugh:
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Okay, I'll update the question explaining more about what I've done so far and why I need this to get done and what exactly I need to get done. Lets see how many users answer the question.
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Okay, I'll update the question explaining more about what I've done so far and why I need this to get done and what exactly I need to get done. Lets see how many users answer the question.
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Lets see how many users answer the question.
Don't look at me - I know sod-all about Oracle! :laugh:
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I gave up on SO years ago: if you aren't part of the "ruling clique" then if you disagree with the establishment, your answers disappear. And sometimes the other answer magically changes to include what you said...strange that... :laugh:
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SO is very, very cliquy. Whilst it can be good for answering very specific (black and white) type questions, it fails terribly on more discussion based, open-ended questions e.g. "What are the pros and cons of doing......." type questions. There is a definite elitism about SO that jars with me. I much prefer the convivial nature of CP. I find it a far broader church :)
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