Doubts on How to Answer Stoopid Questions
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Is it just good ol hippy java kids who can't ask questions or are the other subjects suffering the same dross in the Q&A forum? I really want to be able to help and I get a warm fuzzy feeling from seeing an answer helping someone. But the f'in' questions that are appearing are allmost wothout exception: How to [Activity] How do I do [Activity] in java? Please help! All that's missing is sndcdzplz. Should I just answer
CListCtrl?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
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Is it just good ol hippy java kids who can't ask questions or are the other subjects suffering the same dross in the Q&A forum? I really want to be able to help and I get a warm fuzzy feeling from seeing an answer helping someone. But the f'in' questions that are appearing are allmost wothout exception: How to [Activity] How do I do [Activity] in java? Please help! All that's missing is sndcdzplz. Should I just answer
CListCtrl?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
A good deal of the questions are unintelligible or just plain dumb or both (in every forum). I've been trying to answer some more recently (not very busy) but it gets wearing. I answered one with what I thought was a reasonable answer and they came back with 'oh and I forgot to mention...' whihc completely chnaged the question. Grr. They say ther are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. Plainly, they've never been on a CP forum.
Tychotics: take us back to the moon "Life, for ever dying to be born afresh, for ever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars." H. G. Wells
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Is it just good ol hippy java kids who can't ask questions or are the other subjects suffering the same dross in the Q&A forum? I really want to be able to help and I get a warm fuzzy feeling from seeing an answer helping someone. But the f'in' questions that are appearing are allmost wothout exception: How to [Activity] How do I do [Activity] in java? Please help! All that's missing is sndcdzplz. Should I just answer
CListCtrl?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
No question, no answer! I think we should answer only the question that we understand, and silently ignore the rest. There are two kinds of kiddies who cannot ask a proper question: Stupid/lazy people - and fine people with bad English skills. There's no sense in giving an even more unintelligible answer to somebody who isn't able to read it. (In worst case, he could adopt that style for future postings!) Hence the best way is to ignore questions we cannot read and answer the readable ones. :)
This statement is false.
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Is it just good ol hippy java kids who can't ask questions or are the other subjects suffering the same dross in the Q&A forum? I really want to be able to help and I get a warm fuzzy feeling from seeing an answer helping someone. But the f'in' questions that are appearing are allmost wothout exception: How to [Activity] How do I do [Activity] in java? Please help! All that's missing is sndcdzplz. Should I just answer
CListCtrl?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
Doubts on How to Answer Stoopid Questions
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
All that's missing is sndcdzplz. Should I just answer CListCtrl?
I simply don't answer stupid questions :rolleyes:
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
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No question, no answer! I think we should answer only the question that we understand, and silently ignore the rest. There are two kinds of kiddies who cannot ask a proper question: Stupid/lazy people - and fine people with bad English skills. There's no sense in giving an even more unintelligible answer to somebody who isn't able to read it. (In worst case, he could adopt that style for future postings!) Hence the best way is to ignore questions we cannot read and answer the readable ones. :)
This statement is false.
Corinna John wrote:
Stupid/lazy people
sndcdzplz - they get a politly worded FOAD.
Corinna John wrote:
fine people with bad English
Try this I did:
/// Blah
void ValamitLenni(Object ezAz)
{
// mi a baj? nem tudom.
}Works not! How i fix? - this one gets all the help I can give.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
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A good deal of the questions are unintelligible or just plain dumb or both (in every forum). I've been trying to answer some more recently (not very busy) but it gets wearing. I answered one with what I thought was a reasonable answer and they came back with 'oh and I forgot to mention...' whihc completely chnaged the question. Grr. They say ther are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. Plainly, they've never been on a CP forum.
Tychotics: take us back to the moon "Life, for ever dying to be born afresh, for ever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars." H. G. Wells
That forum is getting like the Home Office!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
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Is it just good ol hippy java kids who can't ask questions or are the other subjects suffering the same dross in the Q&A forum? I really want to be able to help and I get a warm fuzzy feeling from seeing an answer helping someone. But the f'in' questions that are appearing are allmost wothout exception: How to [Activity] How do I do [Activity] in java? Please help! All that's missing is sndcdzplz. Should I just answer
CListCtrl?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
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Is it just good ol hippy java kids who can't ask questions or are the other subjects suffering the same dross in the Q&A forum? I really want to be able to help and I get a warm fuzzy feeling from seeing an answer helping someone. But the f'in' questions that are appearing are allmost wothout exception: How to [Activity] How do I do [Activity] in java? Please help! All that's missing is sndcdzplz. Should I just answer
CListCtrl?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
The C# Q&A is similarly effected. I vote down then answer with why I Univoted. That way it drops out of the "Unanswered" list as well.
Dalek Dave: There are many words that some find offensive, Homosexuality, Alcoholism, Religion, Visual Basic, Manchester United, Butter.
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Is it just good ol hippy java kids who can't ask questions or are the other subjects suffering the same dross in the Q&A forum? I really want to be able to help and I get a warm fuzzy feeling from seeing an answer helping someone. But the f'in' questions that are appearing are allmost wothout exception: How to [Activity] How do I do [Activity] in java? Please help! All that's missing is sndcdzplz. Should I just answer
CListCtrl?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
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Vote. Them. Down.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.But they didn't care about that, because they create new id's in CP for every questions when they feel old one is in trouble or something like that.:cool:
thatraja
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Corinna John wrote:
Stupid/lazy people
sndcdzplz - they get a politly worded FOAD.
Corinna John wrote:
fine people with bad English
Try this I did:
/// Blah
void ValamitLenni(Object ezAz)
{
// mi a baj? nem tudom.
}Works not! How i fix? - this one gets all the help I can give.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
Try this I did:
"Work, my code does not. Read my function and see, you will. Send code, you must! Greatly urgent, this homework is!" -- Yoda asking a question on CP :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel) -
Is it just good ol hippy java kids who can't ask questions or are the other subjects suffering the same dross in the Q&A forum? I really want to be able to help and I get a warm fuzzy feeling from seeing an answer helping someone. But the f'in' questions that are appearing are allmost wothout exception: How to [Activity] How do I do [Activity] in java? Please help! All that's missing is sndcdzplz. Should I just answer
CListCtrl?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
Just ignore them, helping them is just going to encourage them to bring the cost of IT rates down. ;)
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The C# Q&A is similarly effected. I vote down then answer with why I Univoted. That way it drops out of the "Unanswered" list as well.
Dalek Dave: There are many words that some find offensive, Homosexuality, Alcoholism, Religion, Visual Basic, Manchester United, Butter.
If the question is badly set-out, I'll give them the chance for more info. If it is skoolkid asking sndcdzplz, then I'll answer it off the list.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
Try this I did:
"Work, my code does not. Read my function and see, you will. Send code, you must! Greatly urgent, this homework is!" -- Yoda asking a question on CP :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Ian Shlasko wrote:
Work, my code does not. Read my function and see, you will. Send code, you must! Greatly urgent, this homework is!"
"Of you scared I am" - Yoda responding to JSOP
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
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Vote. Them. Down.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.Voted You Up
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
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Is it just good ol hippy java kids who can't ask questions or are the other subjects suffering the same dross in the Q&A forum? I really want to be able to help and I get a warm fuzzy feeling from seeing an answer helping someone. But the f'in' questions that are appearing are allmost wothout exception: How to [Activity] How do I do [Activity] in java? Please help! All that's missing is sndcdzplz. Should I just answer
CListCtrl?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
Should I just answer CListCtrl
What is CListCtrl ;P
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If the question is badly set-out, I'll give them the chance for more info. If it is skoolkid asking sndcdzplz, then I'll answer it off the list.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
Me too , I only do the answer thing for "I don't know how to [insert easily googleable, yet untried, process here] Snd Codez Plz" Type posts. Bad English / formatting usually just gets a message asking them to clarify / tidy up. In that case I don't generally vote either.
Dalek Dave: There are many words that some find offensive, Homosexuality, Alcoholism, Religion, Visual Basic, Manchester United, Butter.
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
Work, my code does not. Read my function and see, you will. Send code, you must! Greatly urgent, this homework is!"
"Of you scared I am" - Yoda responding to JSOP
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
I should make a calculator that works in Yoda Notation.... It's kind of like Reverse Polish, but instead of [arg1][arg2][operator], it's [arg2][arg1][operator]. [I] [should make] [a calculator] becomes [a calculator] [I] [should make] Would get really confusing with anything but addition and multiplication...
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel) -
But they didn't care about that, because they create new id's in CP for every questions when they feel old one is in trouble or something like that.:cool:
thatraja
...but simply to remove these questions from my view from the view of all other CPians. (having them greyed out / marked with a low score is enough for quick visual filtering. I don't insist on them being removed from view totally.) If they do care, the can at least ask for an explanation why it was voted down.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server. -
Is it just good ol hippy java kids who can't ask questions or are the other subjects suffering the same dross in the Q&A forum? I really want to be able to help and I get a warm fuzzy feeling from seeing an answer helping someone. But the f'in' questions that are appearing are allmost wothout exception: How to [Activity] How do I do [Activity] in java? Please help! All that's missing is sndcdzplz. Should I just answer
CListCtrl?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
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