<VV> Mistakes many make when participating in "Online Question / answer threads"

Dave Keillor dkeillor at tconcepts.com
Tue Mar 27 15:20:18 EDT 2012


My peeve is meta posts like this one.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Matt Nall <patiomatt at aol.com> wrote:

> This is my PERSONAL  list.....  nothing more
>
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> 1  Not "catching up"... IE:  reading ALL  posts before replying to EVEN
> ONE! [ unless a personal question ]
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> This results  in:
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> A-  A post  for a topic that is already  resolved several days before!
> B-  A totally offbase answer because the Original poster  has since
> corrected / or Clarified what they are referring to.
> C-  Making a statement that has already been "disproved"!!
> D-  Repeating a fix, or specification made prior.. make the poster look
> like  a plagiarizer  ..TRYING to look "Smart"
>
>
> 2  Using a Online Forum / Usergroup  as a "Bulletin Board", instead of
> emailing the person directly / privately IE:
>
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> A-  "Hey Joe.. Do you know  Tony P"  or   "  I like    Studebakers  too..
> when on a CORVAIR  group!
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> What are other's peeves??   Let's see how many can stay "on topic"?
>
>
> Matt Nall
> Charleston, Oregon
> http://tinyurl.com/The-Patio
> http://tinyurl.com/Matts-Tech-Pages
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Dave Keillor
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