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See How To Ask Questions The Smart Way. That is interesting; most of what it says that is relevant to these forums is very much like what is said by forum members and moderators.
See in particular:
Use meaningful, specific subject headers
Volume is not precision
Don't claim that you have found a bug
Don't flag your question as "Urgent", even if it is for you
Follow up with a brief note on the solution
Your link doesn't have a URL... I think you meanQuote:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Yes, that is the exact link I meant to include.
The problem is that sometimes the buttons for inserting "vB Code" don't work sometimes. This has been happening for two or three days; sometimes they work and sometimes they don't work. So I have been typing in the vB Code stuff myself. I should have tested the link, though; I usually do and in this situation it would have been especially important. I did however use my mouse to verify that the other links have addresses. I had intended to check to see if there is already a thread from anyone else with the problem but I did not yet do that. I have been having many other strange things happening so there might be something wrong with my system. I hope that if anyone does have a problem such as that or related to that then they will respond in a separate thread instead of this one.
Hmm...so going according to it, if the answer is in the MSDN I can say Read The F***ing Manual to the OP. Or maybe Search The F***ing Web. And when someone posts a thread with the subjectI can say that your subject is stupid. Or maybe if someone flag as urgent I can start flaming.Quote:
HELP! Video doesn't work properly on my laptop!
...Just to mention a few...
I'm sure if I respond like this, the mods will ban me.
That site seems to be for techies like people from International Space Station for instance. The headings is accepted here, in a good sense, but not the way it is explained. Not a single one.
It is very, very, very interesting and highly indicative that you interpret that that way. There are many other ways that it would be interpreted.Quote:
Originally posted by Mathew Joy
.... I can say that your subject is stupid. Or maybe if someone flag as urgent I can start flaming.
I very much appreciate getting your thoughts.
You didn't quote me out of context, did you Sam? I never ment to say that the subject of "this" thread is stupid.
The summary of my comment is that, though each of the topics mentioned there can be take as it is, in a wider and a good sense, it cannot be taken the way it is explained.
I tried not to. Did I not try enough? Note that I added the "...." to attempt to indicate that there was more preceding the portion I provided. Also note that previous quotes are automatically eliminated when quoting, so if I had left the quote as they were, it would have been confusing.Quote:
Originally posted by Mathew Joy
You didn't quote me out of context, did you Sam?
Note that your entire post is right above what I quoted. Therefore I assume people will have read all your words just prior to reading what I quoted. That is very, very different from a situation in which a quote is taken from somewhere else. In this situation, the entire context is conveniently available with total accuracy.
how do you feed someone that is not hungry? force it down their throat?
It's not a bad faq to link to (though umm isn't this suppose to fall under common sense?), but it's still not going to make anyone read it...
got some humour out of this...ohh how I wish...
a vast majority of the questions can simply be answered via research. Lazy sods!!!!Quote:
Answering one good question is like feeding a hungry person one meal, but teaching them research skills by example is teaching them to grow food for a lifetime.
No, Mathew, I think you misunderstood Sam's post, he just meant you did show him what you really thought of especially about what he thought of, and he did respect what you were saying and that s all...Quote:
Originally posted by Mathew Joy
You didn't quote me out of context, did you Sam? I never ment to say that the subject of "this" thread is stupid.
The summary of my comment is that, though each of the topics mentioned there can be take as it is, in a wider and a good sense, it cannot be taken the way it is explained.
So I think it s you who didnot quote him out of context.... It s just a misunderstaning anyway, right ? :)
I think teh idea od this thread is also good to reference, though I actually myself find that it is hard for me to make an eaily understandable question to get help from people...But there are still many facts out there in real real real life which can tell me that we can just say by words but unable to make it work...or it is just for some time at some place, undefined...
No, home, I was only making sure that he didn't. In a glance it seems.Quote:
Originally posted by Charleston
No, Mathew, I think you misunderstood Sam's post
Well...we would rather edit your comments first... :cool:Quote:
Originally posted by Mathew Joy
I'm sure if I respond like this, the mods will ban me.
...next you'll warn me...then you'll ban me, right?:D :DQuote:
Originally posted by Andreas Masur
Well...we would rather edit your comments first... :cool:
I know the sequence from my familiarity with the activities of CG.:D
as long as your not being a zipper head all the time then no worries, otherwise I would have been gone long ago :pQuote:
Originally posted by Mathew Joy
...next you'll warn me...then you'll ban me, right?:D :D
I know the sequence from my familiarity with the activities of CG.:D
Only 29 posts more Mick:D ...I'm waiting...:)
Gasp! Xe*n???Quote:
Originally posted by Mathew Joy
I know the sequence from my familiarity with the activities of CG.:D