 Contest: the most vague question [message #196380] |
Thu, 05 October 2006 03:27  |
Frank
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After seeing yet another rather vague question, let's start a contest.
Which is the vaguest question ever posted?
example
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JSI2001 already made some nice replies pointing people to the fact they were 'a tad vague'.
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| Re: Contest: [message #207534 is a reply to message #205048] |
Tue, 05 December 2006 23:16  |
ehegagoka
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hi!,
just found this part of the forum.
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Found a new contestant for the vaguest post. Now here's someone that can make his requirements clear!
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sorry for that post =) i just had a hard time explaining it in just posting it, im not good in english really, and I really want to thank those people like sir JRowbottom, you sir Frank, sir djmartin, and all the others who gives their time in aswering other peoples "programming problems". Not all people are good at explaining especially explaining it thru a language they also dont know much, sometimes you really do ask/post questions that is quite hard for you to explain that it loooks like a "stupid question" for other people, even if you dont intend it to be that way. But really this forum have been of great help for me, I know that you just want others to start solving their problems and exert some effort first before asking for other peoples help. Thank you so much again sir/mam, hope you dont get tired asking those questions over & over again c",)
regards,
rhani
P.S. advance merry xmas =)
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| Re: Contest: [message #209222 is a reply to message #209211] |
Wed, 13 December 2006 19:50 |
rleishman
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Notwithstanding Barbara's very likely observations and deific tolerance levels, I think we have a new winner. Bonus points awarded for Cthulhu's response.
[Updated on: Wed, 13 December 2006 19:51] Report message to a moderator |
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| Re: Contest: [message #209413 is a reply to message #209326] |
Thu, 14 December 2006 13:16 |
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Barbara Boehmer
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I remember my first post, which was also my first forum experience, and my first internet experience. It was on the old Oracle Education forums, that no longer exist, prior to the current OTN forums. Where I worked, we had just begun swtiching from FoxPro to Oracle and most of us had not even attended any Oracle classes yet, and were stumbling through what we could. Somebody showed me how to do 'select * from table_name;' and that was about all I knew yet. I found a link to some online Oracle educational videos, but could not get them to run, and was looking for help on how to run them. I found three posts about the videos on the Oracle Education forums, so I asked for help, cross-posting, on all three, not knowing that most people read all threads, and cross-posting was a bad idea, and there were no posted guidelines or stickies. I worked in a place where, at that time, all forms were required to be filled in with all capital letters, and all typed correspondence was required to be typed in all capital lettters. It was actual written in their department mauals that all capitals were required. So, out of habit, I naturally posted in all capitals, not having the slightest clue that was considered like shouting. So, my first post consisted of three cross-posts that hijacked other threads, in all capitals. I recall that somebody responded to one of them, but it didn't help any, and the others were ignored. A co-worker told me that Oracle had a reputation for good product, but bad service and that was an example. Neither he nor I had ever heard of Metalink and had no idea that the responses were posted by volunteers and not Oracle employees and that was not official support. Let us not all forget that we too were once newbies.
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