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

[Tarry]

Oh not at all, Abhay!

I mean there aren't many people here who snap back at all times but you're right that sarcasm must come down a bit. It is rather disturbing to see that people come up with all kinds of requests that don't make sense. It's almost like people are beginning to use the web as a place to "get off". That also includes people trying to judge others rather quickly.

Experienced people are just as lazy as inexperienced. I don't give a sh*t about anyone who's adding his post counts by not "really" contributing to the forum, You'll earn more respect from fellow members if you really come out and help others help themselves, look at people like Chris, jurij, slimdave and others... these guys take pains to even format the code and post it back. Look at Tom Kyte, he'll answer your most complex problem but also take time to give a simple explanation of a selfjoin (say) or simply something like this...(http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p...1497644517496,). We here don't have the luxury to sort out the post or bung some php code(but it's certainly a good idea) which will.....

[1]sort users asking for os version, nature of problem, efforts ,issues, etc etc

[2] ask them to read text of agreeing to some terms(on individual posts) etc



About the inexp people now...

I mean for instance the sts/ilt guy on the ocp forum, you see guys who have all the material and trust me all that stuff is being given away for free by all those ftp's in far east (I'm not saying that he got it that way though). So you take no effort to study, you spend nothing to buy the stuff and naturally you'll have no motivation to go up there and take the exam. And you're not going to come out as a true professional.

"get my drift" says a guy in the ocp forum. What do you want? That someone else takes the exam for you? No wonder the ocp, mcse is worth nothing anymore. You could get that kind of person as your colleague who'll lean on you for everything,..

You're definitely right about going easy on the newcomers but you've got no choice against people coming begging for all kind of nonsense like mail me back asap, "get my drift", etc.

I'm certainly not reluctant to add that, I'm absolutely againt the notion of spewing out your frustrations on others...

Cheers.

Tarry