on 10-27-2009 10:56 PM
I don't often have rants but after more than a year of seeing the same questions crop up week after week, I have to say I'm on the verge of leaving SDN.
People just couldn't be bothered to search, I'll see exactly the same question posted twice in 10 lines and week after week its exactly the same questions cropping up from users who couldn't be bothered to waste their "valuable" time searching and let others do all the work for them.
What is it with people that they couldn't be bothered to search before posting questions?
You could do your bit by hitting the Abuse Button on all Basic & Searchable questions. I do the same in ABAP General (roughly about 20-30 Abuse Reports a day) and they are all dealt with. Continued violation of the Rules leads to the user losing his/her account. This usually acts as a deterant.
And because of this stricter moderator, the noise-level in ABAP Forums has come down drastically.
pk
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Yes. I select the General Abuse item followed with a small desciption in the text box to be more specific. Something like:
Did not search or
Basic Question or
Did not learn ABAP or
Frequently asked or answered question or
Point-Hunter's bait or
Lazy question et al
If the user opened multiple threads on the same issue, then I provide links to the other duplicates.
If the user is a repeat offender, I mention that too.
If the user has been warned before by the mods, sometimes I provide those links too
Its impossible for the mods to look into every thread in the forum, conisidering they too have full-time day jobs like us. Hence they heavily rely on the Abuse Reports.
pk
Oh.. you want more? Devour!!!
-Vague title
-Vague question
-Incomplete question
-Nonsense question
-Wrong forum
-Point-Hunting with links link (usually a single link, since farms have been vilified)
-Democracy Answers
-Answering basic questions
And last but not the least, my favourite:
-Point-gaming suspected.
pk
Edited by: kishan P on Oct 28, 2009 2:21 PM
Here's an example for you...
pk
PS: also, in an instance we(Gautham) recently discovered:
User Account1 asks a basic question.
*Switch*
User Account2 recommends to search SCN.
*Switch*
User Account1 gives 10 points to User Account2.
Somewhere down the line, the User Accounts gets mixed up. In such a scenario:
-Oops. Something wrong here. Must be the Flux Capacitor.
pk
Edited by: kishan P on Oct 28, 2009 3:00 PM
Do you mind spending some time in the DMS forum, Matt, we need someone who is prepared to start deleting this crap.
It bugs me about how seriously problems are watered down by 400 duplicates of the same post which all say:
"Please show me how to config DMS"
"I need to setup SAP DMS to HR but can't find an option"
"How is a change master used"
"Where can I get DMS training material"
"Where do I find EasyDMS config guide"
etc
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