YOU SUCK: the venting thread

[Ravenous]

Or calling C/C++ source files "scripts"....

Oh blimey that would be the ultimate way to make a C proggie angry, accuse him of being a scripter!

[morphy_richards]

While we're on the topic when and why did programming become coding?

[PeterO]

While we're on the topic when and why did programming become coding?

And when did we stop having Systems Analysts ?
PeterO

[drgeoff]

Sandisk's packaging, of SD and micro-SD cards, with a dotted line and scissors symbol. You cut along the line and still cannot get the contents out.

[drgeoff]

OPs who title a topic "How to ...." , don't put a question mark at the end and then in the body ask how to do something instead of providing the 'How to' solution you are searching for.

[BMS Doug]

OPs who title a topic "How to ...." , don't put a question mark at the end and then in the body ask how to do something instead of providing the 'How to' solution you are searching for.

OPs whose topic title gives no information about what they want to know.

[Douglas6]

Repliers who indiscriminately quote an entire post, including long useless stack traces and data dumps, etc, and including quotes from previous replies that include long stack traces and data dumps, etc., etc. and then tacking on the bottom something like 'Ok.'

It's enough to give my thumb Repetitive Stress Injuries when scrolling down to the 18th or 20th exponentially lengthening post on my phone.

[abishur]

OPs who title a topic "How to ...." , don't put a question mark at the end and then in the body ask how to do something instead of providing the 'How to' solution you are searching for.

OPs who's topic title gives no information about what they want to know.

OPs who's topic title just says "HELP!" or "It's not working!"

[FTrevorGowen]

OPs who title a topic "How to ...." , don't put a question mark at the end and then in the body ask how to do something instead of providing the 'How to' solution you are searching for.

OPs who's topic title gives no information about what they want to know.

OPs who's topic title just says "HELP!" or "It's not working!"

+1 and "in Spades" if it's also "urgent" ...
Trev.

[RobHenry]

OPs who's topic title gives no information about what they want to know.

OPs who's topic title just says "HELP!" or "It's not working!"

whose

[Jessie]

OPs who's topic title just says "HELP!" or "It's not working!"

+1 and "in Spades" if it's also "urgent" ...
Trev.

Don't forget the excessive exclamation points, and following that the attitude you receive when you inform said person that their issue is in-fact not urgent.

[mimi123]

There are an increasing number of posts where people use the wrong names for things and no one is challenging them to use the correct words.

E.g. refering to language constructs (like for,if,while) as functions.....
Or calling C/C++ source files "scripts"....

PeterO

C source files are scripts.

http://bellard.org/tcc

I know that they are not scripts but sharing a finding.

[BMS Doug]

Don't forget the excessive exclamation points, and following that the attitude you receive when you inform said person that their issue is in-fact not urgent.

It gets worse when their actual post is so vague that you struggle to understand exactly what they want to do.

[PeterO]

There are an increasing number of posts where people use the wrong names for things and no one is challenging them to use the correct words.

E.g. refering to language constructs (like for,if,while) as functions.....
Or calling C/C++ source files "scripts"....

PeterO

C source files are scripts.

http://bellard.org/tcc

I know that they are not scripts but sharing a finding.

How bizarre !
PeterO

[PeterO]

People who quote the whole of a previous reply, then start their reply with "No" without actually indicating which part of the quoted post they are disagreeing with !
PeterO

[BMS Doug]

People who quote the whole of a previous reply, then start their reply with "No" without actually indicating which part of the quoted post they are disagreeing with !
PeterO

No?

[PeterO]

People who quote the whole of a previous reply, then start their reply with "No" without actually indicating which part of the quoted post they are disagreeing with !
PeterO

No?

Yes ! Turned out they were actually agreeing with me !

[Ravenous]

Yes ! Turned out they were actually agreeing with me !

You beat me to it.

Another one is this word "pls". What does that mean? I ask for help but don't have the time to ask nicely? In fact they usually are asking nicely, it just looks "wrong" to an old duffer like me and I have to remind myself

[drgeoff]

....it just looks "wrong" to an old duffer like me ....

The whole world looks "wrong" to us old duffers.

[BMS Doug]

....it just looks "wrong" to an old duffer like me ....

The whole world looks "wrong" to us old duffers.

Because all vowels are unnecessary, no one could possibly struggle to understand if we just removed them.

Bcs ll vwls r nncssry, n 1 cld pssbly strggl t ndrstnd f w jst rmvd thm.

[Ravenous]

Vowels are redundant on techie forums anyway. All we need is RTFM or at a stretch LMGTFY.

(Only kidding, folks!)

[BMS Doug]

of course the origin of "pls" was in texting, where you have a character limit per text message so kids learnt to use as few characters as possible, so as to convey a longer message for less cost.

Perhaps this is just continuing the trend, with mobile broadband charging rates / Gb a shorter message costs (fractionally) less to upload and to download each time they view the thread.
please forgive my foolish whimsy, of course it's just an ingrained habit now, but I do like to invent silly rationalisations for bad behaviour patterns

Edit: RTFM is a good first response to most problems.

[DougieLawson]

Edit: RTFM is a good first response to most problems.

Plus or minus posting a LMGTFY link to the fine manual you'd like the punter to read.

[PeterO]

Edit: RTFM is a good first response to most problems.

I think LMGTFY is the better first reply, as it help them to find TFM
PeterO

[drgeoff]

of course the origin of "pls" was in texting, where you have a character limit per text message so kids learnt to use as few characters as possible, so as to convey a longer message for less cost.

Not true. I remember a manager, long before SMS on mobile phones, who passed down all the cr*p that came into his in-tray* with his only action being to scribble "Pls deal" in a top corner.

(* Yes, I do mean in-tray, not email in-box!)