Re: Stop neurotic posting

> > Calling someone a twat is not going to persuade anybody to change > how you think a proper reply should be. > > If I dont understand someone's question, should I not let them know > that if that make themselves a little clearer a better answer may > be given instead of 12 people shooting in the dark giving answers > to problems that are not the issue the person is having? > ok apologies i went a bit far there , but you know what i mean , it terms of a wasted post he/she should say that offlist i reckon then the poster can problem reverify him/her self with a better question. but i've had stuff like i dont understand anything u just said , something on those lines , maybe something like can you please rephrase your question might be better. > > : skips comment on RTFM :) > > Yes the list is about helping people out, but we (those who help > people) arn't here to write someone elses code. If and when that > is done people become too lazy and rely on the list to have their > problems solved, instead of the user doing research himself to > find out if this is a common problem. > i dont think in particular this is what the list is about and i am not implying this , i usually head str8 to php.net then to google then to the list, most of my issues that i ask are regex related and even then, i dont get an exact answer it merely leads me into the right direction where i can modify the example to do what i need it to do > Like for example, when people are asking for examples a simple > google search for '<functionname>' example', usually results with > some good examples. yeh ok we've had stuff like 'is there a script out there that does this', a trip to hotscripts first should have helped them out , but from the time i've started here i dont think there has been any guidelines set on this , and even then , i dont think ppl will read them :\