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Following on from other more specific threads such as the “Ditto” thread, do you feel there is generally poor netiquette on these forums?

I’m wondering as I’m surprised by some posts on here considering that I assumed that most users are IT professionals and should know better.

I used to think I was just old-school, hanging on to old habits from 1990 when bandwidth was scarce, and online manners were necessary, but a recent thread on experience showed that many people had been in IT even longer than me.

Examples that stick out most to me are :-

  • posts with no content or repeating previous comments - except for solution confirmation it justs adds noise.
  • threads not closed by original poster with thanks/Best Answer/ solution confirmation.
  • Relevent Subject Lines. If I have to open the thread to know what its about you have failed. I find this increasingly common and very, very annoying.
  • Thread hijacking or going off-topic. Keep it relevant, please.
  • Geographical assumptions. Your laws, regulations, customs, papersizes, working hours, date formats, public holidays, electrical supply, may not be the same as mine.

Any more examples of poor netiquette? What bugs you most? Is Spiceworks worse than it ought to be for a group of IT professionals?

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Russell P wrote:

  • posts with no content or repeating previous comments - except for solution confirmation it justs adds noise.

Ditto

Russell P wrote:

  • threads not closed by original poster with thanks/Best Answer/ solution confirmation.

Thats what me, the SpiceLords and PA’s are for, also there is a new PM notification system to try and get people to mark it when its been around for a week

Russell P wrote:

  • Relevent Subject Lines. If I have to open the thread to know what its about you have failed. I find this increasingly common and very, very annoying.

New users, happens on every forum, we just have to live with it :frowning:

There are how-tos you can point users to that have been stupid

Russell P wrote:

  • Thread hijacking or going off-topic. Keep it relevant, please.

How do you cook your bacon? in a grill, fring pan? or goerge forman?

Russell P wrote:

  • Geographical assumptions. Your laws, regulations, customs, papersizes, working hours, date formats, public holidays, electrical supply, may not be the same as mine.

No one will work that out for sure, the badges on your avartar try to show where your from but i have no idea whats the diffrence i can only help with what i know

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Russell P wrote:

Any more examples of poor netiquette? What bugs you most? Is Spiceworks worse than it ought to be for a group of IT professionals?

I can think of a few people like sunil (if you remember him)

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Russell P wrote:

I’m wondering as I’m surprised by some posts on here considering that I assumed that most users are IT professionals and should know better.

Any more examples of poor netiquette? What bugs you most? Is Spiceworks worse than it ought to be for a group of IT professionals?

We are meant to all be IT pros but some people download it for home use, or even just to try and get into IT.

People have to download Spiceworks to sign up but dont mean there IT pros…

People like the above mentioned sunil are tying to understand commands and IT and dont get what its all about.

The community is the best forum Im on for filtering the shit / dealing with it. Most of the time its real stuff.

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Anyway now back to how you cook your bacon… I personally like to fry it in lots of fat!

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Ditto to all off the above

And I like mine in a girll nice and crispy

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Ditto :slight_smile:

Besides, the watercooler is the place to break the rules!

Love to fry mine in garlic - keeps the users away.

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In a girl? umm… yeah.

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Hmmm? Could social networking be blamed for some of this? Maybe some of those habits bleed over into this environment. People just commenting like on Twitter. Often times on Twitter people feel compelled to say something in response even if it’s just a “you go girl”. This is like Twitter without the limitation of 140 characters.

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Ditto to nice and Crispy! :smiley:

But seriously, forums all over the world suffer from similar problems. I find that the quality of community gives a certain measure of balance to the… poor netiquette of some users.

Generally the better the quality, the quicker users learn what the accepted forms are.

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Russell P wrote:

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I agree that all these points are very annoying but are you aware that you yourself are guilty of poor netiquette by saying:

I’m wondering as I’m surprised by some posts on here considering that I assumed that most users are IT professionals and should know better.

Thats pretty rude because a lot of your points are generally either honest mistakes or newcomers getting the hang of things. Elitist comments rarely help anyone and should stay in the linux communities.

Twitter like posts are very annoying but as long as they’re still readable I rarely feel the need to give the poster hassle over it. Its when you see the script kiddie style posts that I decide to mark the poster as an idiot.

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Fasckira wrote:

I agree that all these points are very annoying but are you aware that you yourself are guilty of poor netiquette by saying:

I’m wondering as I’m surprised by some posts on here considering that I assumed that most users are IT professionals and should know better.

Thats pretty rude because a lot of your points are generally either honest mistakes or newcomers getting the hang of things. Elitist comments rarely help anyone and should stay in the linux communities.

So rude it almost made me cry

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akp982 wrote:

So rude it almost made me cry

sniff

There, there. Sticks and stones and all that. Go on, have a coffee on me, take a few deep breaths and dry those eyes.

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Ditto

Hey anyone know how to troubleshoot a toaster oven (for bacon of course)???

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#foofoo: Reading SpiceWorks blog about netiquette.

Not a real Twitter account I control. I don’t have any twitter accounts under my control.

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I know the twitter-like posts are annoying, and we all get a little off-topic on occasion, but sometimes it is appropraite to let somnolent canines remain in a recumbent position. By grinding on what the N00bs say as if they were stupid only creates anger and distrust. Then they wreck your forum 'cuz you pissed them off. Fry your bacon any way you like (btw, crispy is good, girls are better) but don’t critisize others for eating sausage.

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Fasckira wrote:

Elitist comments rarely help anyone and should stay in the linux communities.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Now I have to dry some tears - tears of laughter.

Is there a ‘comment of the decade’ button to push?

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HOW DARE YOU!

MY NETIQUETTE IS FLAWLESS AND I CHALLENGE ANYONE TO FIND FAULT WITH IT!!!

I LIKE MY BACON GRILLED, IN A SANDWICH WITH BROWN SAUCE AND MAYONNAISE.

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Overall this is one of the best communities I have belonged to. While it does have some of the general forum problems that seem to be universal overall the quality is high. Probably the most important thing I have observed is that the people who have been around a while haven’t created a closed sub community, they are all out there helping people.

Yes we have some established culture and references, but what group doesn’t?

I should have a bacon sandwich for lunch.