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Kristen
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 Posted - 2010-01-16 : 05:24:17
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| I get hacked off when people put that in their posts. If it's their first post I get more hacked off.Do people really read posts and think "I know the answer to that, I'll come back in three days and type it in ..."?Am I just a miserable old git, or will it be OK to reply thus in future:"Sorry I couldn't answer sooner, but as your question was urgent I'm sure I'm too late now so I'll help someone else instead" |
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GilaMonster
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2010-01-16 : 07:35:54
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You're not the only one irritated by it. Often (depending on my mood) I'll ignore questions that shout 'urgent, urgent' as a matter of principal. It's a form of the 'me first, to hell with everyone else' attitude that's so prevalent (and annoying). I look at that as the poster essentially saying 'I'm more important than everybody else here, help me not them', and that's just not on.To quote an article I found a while back "Don't flag your questions as 'urgent'. That's your problem, not ours"I especially get irritated when the question's a simple one. One I had on SSC a while back was something like this.quote:
What's the meaning of INIT in a backup statement. Answer quickly. Very urgent
Very urgent, but not urgent enough for the person to do some work themselves and open Books Online (or google).--Gail ShawSQL Server MVP |
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Kristen
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Posted - 2010-01-16 : 08:25:24
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"That's your problem, not ours"Now that I like ...  |
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Kristen
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Posted - 2010-01-16 : 08:27:39
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| P.S. I worry that I'm misunderstanding some face-saving nuance from some cultures?"Really urgent" === "I'm really sorry to bother you, I wouldn't be asking in a public forum, and losing face, at all if my boss wasn't about to shoot me, and to save some face I can't actually bring myself to tell you what a complete waste of space I am" ... something like that anyway |
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webfred
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2010-01-16 : 08:32:25
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Often when a "urgent" post isn't clear to me then I post a question to make it more clear.The needed answer to my question, without I can't help, comes hours or days later or sometimes never... so it was VERY URGENT.But I am not ignoring those kind of posts, I am just answering it like all other posts, if I can...only ignoring the word urgent.
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webfred
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2010-01-16 : 08:37:51
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PS: I get hacked off when a poster isn't able to give a needed example and I have asked for an example one or three times.AND I get hacked off when I was asking for an example because it is absolutly not clear what the poster wants and then another poster thinks that he can give an answer while he is (in germany we say:) shooting into the blue...
No, you're never too old to Yak'n'Roll if you're too young to die. |
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Kristen
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Posted - 2010-01-16 : 09:01:32
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| "shooting into the blue"That'll be like "whistling in the wind" |
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GilaMonster
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2010-01-16 : 10:09:10
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Originally posted by webfred
PS: I get hacked off when a poster isn't able to give a needed example and I have asked for an example one or three times.
Yup. We had one of those over at SSC last week. The person got all irate about us asking for table definitions, sample data and some explanation of a completely vague question and eventually posted that they will "go and get the answer for less $$$ somewhere else"Of course that lead to some people making some comments about "less than free"--Gail ShawSQL Server MVP |
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RickD
Slow But Sure Yak Herding Master
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Posted - 2010-01-18 : 06:27:50
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Amazing what people get annoyed about..  I am the same mind. It is even worse when you have answered the question they originally asked, just to get a reply asking for something else and needing to haqve it yesterday.If you had two questions, post two questions. |
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graz
Chief SQLTeam Crack Dealer
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Posted - 2010-01-18 : 10:02:15
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| I have to agree on all the urgent posts. Maybe we need a filter to temporarily hide those for a bit :)=================================================Creating tomorrow's legacy systems today. One crisis at a time. |
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Kristen
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Posted - 2010-01-18 : 10:27:20
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| I will endeavour to reply 1 second after they post them apologising for my delay and that I regret being too late to be any help ... |
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tripodal
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
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Posted - 2010-01-18 : 12:54:47
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| Your problem is self hate, because you cant help people faster :-DIn either case, when I remember to hit F5, you have always posted.mah proof!me - Posted - 01/15/2010 : 10:58:47 kristin - Posted - 01/15/2010 : 11:26:09kristin - Posted - 01/15/2010 : 11:32:37me - Posted - 01/15/2010 : 11:44:14me - Posted - 01/15/2010 : 11:45:12kristin - Posted - 01/15/2010 : 12:24:4 |
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elwoos
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2010-01-19 : 09:04:48
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I'm dissapointed by this thread given the title and the author  I know I'm a little late (better late than never), welcome back to the forums Kristen. I take it the round the world cruise took a little longer than expected  steve-----------Deja Moo - The feeling you've heard the same bull before. |
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Kristen
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elwoos
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Kristen
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Posted - 2010-01-19 : 10:32:25
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Hahaha here's a  for you |
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blindman
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Posted - 2010-01-20 : 13:46:10
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Originally posted by Kristen
Am I just a miserable old git, or will it be OK to reply thus in future:"Sorry I couldn't answer sooner, but as your question was urgent I'm sure I'm too late now so I'll help someone else instead"
Can we only choose one?________________________________________________If it is not practically useful, then it is practically useless.________________________________________________ |
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Kristen
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Posted - 2010-01-20 : 14:09:16
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| "Can we only choose one?"Yes&No, you can only choose the second one [:D)] |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
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Kristen
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Posted - 2010-01-21 : 02:32:18
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| "something discontiguous"I think I might use that word to describe real-world behaviour of IDENTITY() |
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blindman
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2010-01-21 : 15:05:18
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