What Are You Doing Right Now
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I just had a moment where I thought I might actually have to justify to the new sales d*ck why I am the only one here who moves equipment.... My indignant look and gruff "I'll get it moved before the end of the day" sufficed, but I thought I was actually going to have to further with it. He is unknowingly glad that didn't happen.
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Just provided plenty of good advice to someone on SW and, they deleted their post after I put in that effort. That SW allowed people to delete my posts because they decide that they don't want the advice, feel embarrassed, or whatever is not very cool. I don't like that they let OPs do that. Really discourages you from taking the time to invest in posting if someone can capriciously delete other peoples' posts.
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Fiddling with my new Note5 - seems nice so far
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@scottalanmiller said:
Just provided plenty of good advice to someone on SW and, they deleted their post after I put in that effort. That SW allowed people to delete my posts because they decide that they don't want the advice, feel embarrassed, or whatever is not very cool. I don't like that they let OPs do that. Really discourages you from taking the time to invest in posting if someone can capriciously delete other peoples' posts.
That's why 99% of my contributions are pure snark. Barely worth the effort to type real help to most of the new accounts over there.
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@RojoLoco said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Just provided plenty of good advice to someone on SW and, they deleted their post after I put in that effort. That SW allowed people to delete my posts because they decide that they don't want the advice, feel embarrassed, or whatever is not very cool. I don't like that they let OPs do that. Really discourages you from taking the time to invest in posting if someone can capriciously delete other peoples' posts.
That's why 99% of my contributions are pure snark. Barely worth the effort to type real help to most of the new accounts over there.
It's almost always a first post or bright green poster too. Especially with the more crazy questions / issues.
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@MattSpeller or ones claiming to be "new to IT". When they write that, mods won't delete the account, which is BS when the person obviously has no business fixing any technology. Lately, I'm seeing lots of "wah, my home router sucks but I don't want to call my internet provider. Please provide magic IT pro secret to fix".
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@RojoLoco said:
@MattSpeller or ones claiming to be "new to IT". When they write that, mods won't delete the account, which is BS when the person obviously has no business fixing any technology. Lately, I'm seeing lots of "wah, my home router sucks but I don't want to call my internet provider. Please provide magic IT pro secret to fix".
The ones that chap my arse are the ones looking for advice and throwing buzz words around with zero clues (or fks) given. I think of them as someone from Finance or something looking to see what kind of a monster they can create.
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@MattSpeller no doubt... those types should be rectally shocked for trying to snoop around on IT forums. Take 4 disparate ideas and expect some combination of them all to already exist and the IT department should already know all about it.
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@MattSpeller said:
@RojoLoco said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Just provided plenty of good advice to someone on SW and, they deleted their post after I put in that effort. That SW allowed people to delete my posts because they decide that they don't want the advice, feel embarrassed, or whatever is not very cool. I don't like that they let OPs do that. Really discourages you from taking the time to invest in posting if someone can capriciously delete other peoples' posts.
That's why 99% of my contributions are pure snark. Barely worth the effort to type real help to most of the new accounts over there.
It's almost always a first post or bright green poster too. Especially with the more crazy questions / issues.
Yes, newbies who decide it was a bad idea to go public.
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@RojoLoco said:
@MattSpeller or ones claiming to be "new to IT". When they write that, mods won't delete the account, which is BS when the person obviously has no business fixing any technology. Lately, I'm seeing lots of "wah, my home router sucks but I don't want to call my internet provider. Please provide magic IT pro secret to fix".
This one was about five years in and I thought that I had actually super supportive advice. He took a "hiatus" from his career but it was so short that literally it was just a several week vacation.
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TL;DR - We're all kinda tired of SW community & it shows.
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A year in the life of Darth Vader: http://art-sheep.com/what-darth-vaders-life-would-be-like-if-he-was-an-actual-person/
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@MattSpeller said:
TL;DR - We're all kinda tired of SW community & it shows.
Not an unfair assessment. I wonder what makes the communities so different in feel, though. Why do people do that there and not here.
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Eventually so much of it has become "we are all tired of repeating the same stuff for the people who can't be bothered to participate."
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@scottalanmiller said:
@MattSpeller said:
TL;DR - We're all kinda tired of SW community & it shows.
Not an unfair assessment. I wonder what makes the communities so different in feel, though. Why do people do that there and not here.
It may be our bias (if not completely, partially) - we will see as this community grows and gets higher on the google "omg my stuff broke how to fix it plz" search list
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Yes exactly. We who have been there see the same questions day in, day out year after year. Because it is so many newbies, they never improve and never grow.
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@scottalanmiller Another way to look at that would be: there is an endless supply of newbies who ask (from our POV) inane questions. Some will learn and join in, others will leave, but always there will be new grist for the mill.
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That's why I keep writing guides and stuff so that at least there is a vetted, distilled place to go look that is the same material being checked over and over again. We can slowly build a complete "guide to IT" that we just have to link and eventually we actually end up producing the entire curriculum of what is needed for the field.
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Heading out to La Colonia to get groceries and get take out pizza for the family.
