Being nasty to newbies in the professional forums

[DieScum]

Good thread, actually. I always wonder what people get out of being sociopaths online.

[SueEllen]

Good thread, actually. I always wonder what people get out of being sociopaths online.

Cos it's fun - now run along and go play in traffic.

[MarillionFan]

Cos it's fun - now run along and go play in traffic.

My god, you're so cruel. There must be something wrong with you in real life.

MF in 'I read it on the t'internet, made an assumption and will now extrapolate' Mode

[BrilloPad]

Good thread, actually. I always wonder what people get out of being sociopaths online.

They want to be a sociopath in real life - but don't have the anonymity.

Meet most cukkers face to face and they are very nice people.

Except spod - the quality of his biccies leaves alot to be desired.....

[doodab]

I try extra hard to be nice on here. I'm horrid in real life.

[MarillionFan]

They want to be a sociopath in real life - but don't have the anonymity.

Meet most cukkers face to face and they are very nice people.

Except spod - the quality of his biccies leaves alot to be desired.....

W'The Tard'S

While you are falsely smiling at your work colleagues & laughing at your hiring managers jokes, you are really a seething ball of frustration who would like to carry out all of the scenes in 'Whack Your Boss' but have to alleviate it by using your anonymous login on CUK to come along & abuse other seething balls of frustration to tip them off their game & into going postal in the office, so you can read about in tomorrows Daily Mail.

They're talking about you again Brillo.

[Scoobos]

It's the snowball effect.

If I am a newbie googling a common contracting question, chances are I'll land on this forum. Of the 73 results, one is 28 pages long with people arguing over interpretation, one has wandered completely off topic and fails to address the question, and the other 71 have some unfriendly fecker telling people to sod off and use the search.

So I start a new thread in the vain hope of a clear, concise and friendly answer to my common contracting dilemma.

So the next googling newbie gets 74 results.

WSS - Nail on head.

[TheFaQQer]

Tell people to use Google, etc, but there's no reason not to be polite about it. Just use a form reply "this gets asked all the time, please search [for XXX] and then come back if you can't find an answer".

Maybe some people round here should read the intro to "Javascript for Assholes", as found by admin:

I also liked the look of this one:
https://leanpub.com/javascriptforassholes

I see it all the time, and it seems to be getting worse. Why should ‘newbies’ feel as if they have to apologize for seeking knowledge? Why should they be told “Well, a quick Google search would tell you...” when you could just help them? I find it ironic and utterly ******* shameful that the same people who tout the virtues of Pair Programming are so quick to deny someone the type of knowledge sharing that comes with human interaction.

[Old Hack]

As long as it's not NLUK carrying it out then I am all for it.

That tea tree oil smarts on the sack though.

Apparently....

[speling bee]

That tea tree oil smarts on the sack though.

Apparently....

Real contractors don't have sacks. We have contract terminations.