How to ask questions in a forum!! Newbees and exp. people pay attention!

[Tarry]

I Agree with you there. I can speak of myself, so all I do is try to help on the provided issue with the same limited output as the input.

That would drive him/her away as well, right? DBA support is by far a very mature forum. I think it'll die sooner if the senior members leave before the incoming newbie's. I don't see Tim, Julian, Tamil, among others..anymore. Why? They've gone because all the questions are either incredibly basic , illegible and I mean you don't know what to make of it.

That makes me thinking where we should start something like a "Question a day" kind of a knowledge forum. Where you play with functions, procs, triggers,or just about anything. You can make a nice quiz or something like that with authorware or other programs... That way you bring the meat back into the forum.

I think the whole idea is to educate the newer generation of the whole new ball game what the web has become. But certianly there's no need to be downright nasty ,there're other means of shredding