From this day forward I strive to make the world a better place by replying to all the lazy bleepingbleepers in this forum with a wave, a smile and a Fry & Laurie youtube video.
So I am all for giving them 0 attention and seeing the lazy bugger off, but that doesn't happen due to said nicer people.Looking at you ads-ee! Where do you get your patience from?
A feature I miss a bit in this forum software is where you can flag a thread as "don't read this", a bit a la killfile on usenet. Then you could just read a lazy bleepingbleeper post once, flag it, and never ever see it again. Would work fine for me. But alas, the forum does not have this and there is always some person much kinder and more patient than me that actually does reply, and then the thread bumps up again into view.
Alas, it is still under development. :grin:
BigDog
The problem I have is eventually another semi-knowledgeable to completely clueless individual will reply with a answer that is utterly incorrect or a non sequitur and the post moves up.So I am all for giving them 0 attention and seeing the lazy bugger off, but that doesn't happen due to said nicer people.Looking at you ads-ee! Where do you get your patience from?
I understand the sentiment. But on the other hand, an exceedingly lazy poster getting an utterly incorrect answer does have a certain level of poetry to it. May they take the utterly incorrect answer as gospel and let reality be their feedback.The problem I have is eventually another semi-knowledgeable to completely clueless individual will reply with a answer that is utterly incorrect or a non sequitur and the post moves up.
I sort of like the idea of voting things up and down like stack exchange has, but extended to the original posts themselves. So if a post gets voted down a bunch it basically get relegated to a "poor quality questions" area, and hopefully experiences a slow painful electronic death. ;-)
So why do I have the above post as a PM?
No more Fry & Laurie? Noooooooooooooooooooooo.
Anyways, I look forward to hearing the politically correct embodiment of "kindly please consider possibly using google if it is convenient kind sir that I respect very much indeed". Seriously. Anyways, I'll ignore those posts. Problem solved. :thumbsup:
On a totally unrelated matter: is there any way to have threads started by people on your ignore list to not show up at all? Right now I've added a few pro-active indivuals that I respect very much indeed to that list. And when I click on a thread by these fine people at least it doesn't show up their valued content anymore, which is progress. But not showing any thread started by a person on that list would be even better in terms of time allocation of all parties concerned. Is there a profile configuration setting for something like this? I tried, but failed to find anything.
Incidentally, the ajax call to add a user to the ignore list adds the security token to the POST request twice.
In fact, we could do with a sticky at the top of forums showing people "how" to search, how to use the forum search and search engines and how to phrase their questions for the best results.
It's knowing this that helps me find stuff that others cannot.
Often ESL language barriers or inexperience requires KEYWORDs for successful searches. One can help teach by keyword ...Good suggestion, we will certainly consider it in our discussions.
BigDog
As far as I'm aware of any links you posted in discussions have been profound and helpful. But I have seen other links being "nothing more" than an indirect way to tell how stupid the original post is. Even if the post somehow deserves a rebuff, this reaction isn't helpful and will hardly cause the OP to reconsider his way of learning.An LMGTFY link is nothing more than helping someone learn how to use a search engine to search for answers to what they are asking for.
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Please avoid replies like “google it” or “read the datasheet” or if you give such answers provide a couple of links or the specific chapter/page that the user should read.
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