Being nasty to newbies in the professional forums

[MarillionFan]

NLUK, do you mind awfully not shooting down every new poster in the professional forums with your 'what a stupid question', 'what an idiot', 'look at the stickies you time waster'.

This is like the North Sea cod problem, you're starving the General board of new posters because you've caught them in the professional boards & thrown them back in before they can grow.

Pack it in!!!!

[eek]

NLUK, do you mind awfully not shooting down every new poster in the professional forums with your 'what a stupid question', 'what an idiot', 'look at the stickies you time waster'.

This is like the North Sea cod problem, you're starving the General board of new posters because you've caught them in the professional boards & thrown them back in before they can grow.

Pack it in!!!!

wMFs. Why do I feel dirty having said that?

[psychocandy]

NLUK isnt real. Hes a bot that automatically replies to newbie posters....

[Coalman]

NLUK, do you mind awfully not shooting down every new poster in the professional forums with your 'what a stupid question', 'what an idiot', 'look at the stickies you time waster'.

This is like the North Sea cod problem, you're starving the General board of new posters because you've caught them in the professional boards & thrown them back in before they can grow.

Pack it in!!!!

Maybe make your sockies appear more intelligent and then he'll let them pass ....

Oh, spotted the problem!

[Ketchup]

I actually think he has a valid point. His replies are effectively policing the forums, so now every new poster is probably aware of NLUK so does a search first or runs the gauntlet of feeling his wrath. The forum would be a lot worse if we had hundreds of identical posts every day in each forum

[northernladuk]

NLUK, do you mind awfully not shooting down every new poster in the professional forums with your 'what a stupid question', 'what an idiot', 'look at the stickies you time waster'.

This is like the North Sea cod problem, you're starving the General board of new posters because you've caught them in the professional boards & thrown them back in before they can grow.

Pack it in!!!!

Coming from the forum nice guy I will take this as a compliment.

New or not, if it is an ill thought out and poorly researched question then they get the same answer. They might be new to the forum but they are not new to common sense, google and other researching methods. As you of all people are well aware it's a public forum and people are free to post what they want. I will take your request in to consideration though......

[IR35FanClub]

As a fairly new poster (despite signing up years ago) I find it off putting that if you ask a question about something that has been discussed before you might get a bit of a bollocking.

Now serarching is all good and that, but sometimes you want to ask a question becuase:
a) you've read lots of threads and you've ended up confused as there's so many views and no general consensus so want to get clarification
b) the threads you've found are old and you are wondering if things have changed at all
c) you have specific questions that aren't covered in other threads that do cover the same issue
d) you'd actually just like to talk bollocks about something that has been talked about before as in...

Man sits down next to his mate in a bar.
Says "So who's gonna win the cup this year?"
Barmaid says "you can't have that conversation, it was discussed last week"
Mans says, "no problem love". turns to his mate and says "would you give the barmaid one?".

I think lots of discussions on the same topic isn't bad. If you don't want to join in coz you've seen it all before - you don't have to. I thought the idea of forums were for people to hold public conversations. Regardless of the level of prior knowledge.

[MarillionFan]

Coming from the forum nice guy I will take this as a compliment.

New or not, if it is an ill thought out and poorly researched question then they get the same answer. They might be new to the forum but they are not new to common sense, google and other researching methods. As you of all people are well aware it's a public forum and people are free to post what they want. I will take your request in to consideration though......

It's not a ******* request.

[northernladuk]

As a fairly new poster (despite signing up years ago) I find it off putting that if you ask a question about something that has been discussed before you might get a bit of a bollocking.

Now serarching is all good and that, but sometimes you want to ask a question becuase:
a) you've read lots of threads and you've ended up confused as there's so many views and no general consensus so want to get clarification
b) the threads you've found are old and you are wondering if things have changed at all
c) you have specific questions that aren't covered in other threads that do cover the same issue
d) you'd actually just like to talk bollocks about something that has been talked about before as in...

Man sits down next to his mate in a bar.
Says "So who's gonna win the cup this year?"
Barmaid says "you can't have that conversation, it was discussed last week"
Mans says, "no problem love". turns to his mate and says "would you give the barmaid one?".

I think lots of discussions on the same topic isn't bad. If you don't want to join in coz you've seen it all before - you don't have to. I thought the idea of forums were for people to hold public conversations. Regardless of the level of prior knowledge.

Good argument, terrible analogy. They do not come on to discuss. They come on and ask a question and want an answer, often an answer they want to hear not the real answer. There is a balance I agree but questions on 24 month rule, where to get contracts reviewed, can I pay pension out of business are not discussions we need to have again.

[nomadd]

Coming from the forum nice guy I will take this as a compliment.

This^

New or not, if it is an ill thought out and poorly researched question then they get the same answer. They might be new to the forum but they are not new to common sense, google and other researching methods. As you of all people are well aware it's a public forum and people are free to post what they want. I will take your request in to consideration though......

And this^

Go get 'em, NLUK!!!!!