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Members' Attitude problems.....

While there is a small minority of nasty posters, I tend to find that a larger number are either misinformed in virtually every post they make, or are just miserable, and take life too seriously.

I was a fairly prolific poster a few years back, and I've really noticed a difference in attitude this time. Life's just far too short to be miserable on the internet, of all places :)

andy.
 
OP, for what it's worth I've kind of seen the same thing sometimes, I do have a couple of people where whenever I see them, I'm like, oh man, not them again! lol. One or two sometimes get downright creepy in their quickness to condemn. Of course it gets particularly ugly over in the politics, religion, social issues forum-where I tend to end up sometimes, because I often can't really help with other people's questions in the 'proper', main mac forums as I'm largely a noob myself really. There you have a couple of sort of 'trigger topics', where whenever someone brings it up, I can pretty much predict who will say what and at pretty much what point in the discussion. Needless to say, I hung out there for a bit after my 100th post (the lure of the recently forbidden ya see, lol), but after a few weeks I stopped going unless the most recent thread, which showed up, was intriguing.

I like Blue Velvet lol, she's on the prowl now looking for transgressors :p
 
Is there any way to force to make a search before making a thread? Things that could help to reduce multiple threads is by making a minimum post count for making new threads because there are lots of people that will only join for asking a question and never come back, so the past threads are practically a huge datebase that helps out most of the people solve their problems.
 
MacNut said:
I think a lot of the members attitudes would improve if the questions being asked were not so stupid. How many times can you answer the same questions without going insane.
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Then don't answer the questions that bother you.

Honestly, I don't see what the big deal is. The more times a question is asked, the easier it becomes to answer.

There's no excuse for rudeness.
 
Samarium said:
Is there any way to force to make a search before making a thread? Things that could help to reduce multiple threads is by making a minimum post count for making new threads because there are lots of people that will only join for asking a question and never come back, so the past threads are practically a huge datebase that helps out most of the people solve their problems.
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Actually, must posters should be adult and mature enough to do a search. Who knows, the answer to your question could be right under your nose. ;)

*Adult does not always equal Mature* :D
 
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Don't take it too seriously or personally, the internet is rife with douchebaggery and other unpleasantries.

I present you with the theorem:

http://upc.*************/uploads/macros/internetdickwadtheory.jpg

Though if it's a constant problem then report it to the mods and they may dish out a bitchslapping if warranted.
 
Stealing your wireless (ifone: Mozilla/6.0 (ifone; U; CPU BB OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) lookin at porn

You can't take stuff seriously on the internets.
 
MacNut said:
I think a lot of the members attitudes would improve if the questions being asked were not so stupid. How many times can you answer the same questions without going insane.
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But couldn't you argue that this is exactly what teachers do? Teach the same subject and answer the same types of questions over and over again...only to new students? In a way you're doing the same thing for forum members who "didn't take that class before" or are new. Yes, you could simply tell a forum member to search for the answer or tell them where to look...just like a teacher could tell a student to go search the library for the answer or the answer is in Book X. Sometimes, that may be the best approach. However, sometimes it's just easier to answer the student on the spot.

The thing is, if you don't want to deal with answering or hearing/reading the same questions over and over again, don't get in front of the class in the first place. Now, it's a completely different thing if the same student is asking the same question over and over again....Then, there's a problem.
 
The difference is that we have a search here. If students could search everything it would save a lot of education costs.;)
 
MacNut said:
Stealing your wireless (ifone: Mozilla/6.0 (ifone; U; CPU BB OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) lookin at porn

You can't take stuff seriously on the internets.
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Wait a second ... am I suppose to take that seriously?;)
 
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Antares said:
But couldn't you argue that this is exactly what teachers do? Teach the same subject and answer the same types of questions over and over again...only to new students? In a way you're doing the same thing for forum members who "didn't take that class before" or are new. Yes, you could simply tell a forum member to search for the answer or tell them where to look...just like a teacher could tell a student to go search the library for the answer or the answer is in Book X. Sometimes, that may be the best approach. However, sometimes it's just easier to answer the student on the spot.

The thing is, if you don't want to deal with answering or hearing/reading the same questions over and over again, don't get in front of the class in the first place. Now, it's a completely different thing if the same student is asking the same question over and over again....Then, there's a problem.
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Difference is, that is their job and they are being paid to do it (albeit poorly). They knew what they were in for. While most people here also know that the internet is full of n00bs who lazily want to use us as a free hotline for their problems, it is not unexpected or unreasonable for a couple of snappy posts here and there as a result. It's the way of the internet.

I think the majority of people who have put on their n00b stomping shoes have also taken them off and stuck up for the n00bs just as many times. It's a cycle, you see. :p

But anyway, enough seriousness.
 
Sorry, not to disrespect the moderators, but often times I have seen people put in time outs or temp-bans for saying very truthful things to people that were freaking out on others, I'm not sure what that nonsense is all about, but it has happened a few times now. My suggestion is just be more open minded when it comes to people and why they are saying the things that they are. That aside, I do feel that too many people on these forums are here simply to rant and complain because it is the only place they can do it. What are the consequences here really? At most a time out or ban, but that is easily remedied. In all honesty the macrumors group has to be the most negative bunch I have run across out there on the web in regards to Apple forums.
 
iBlue said:
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Don't take it too seriously or personally, the internet is rife with douchebaggery and other unpleasantries.

I present you with the theorem:

http://upc.*************/uploads/macros/internetdickwadtheory.jpg

Though if it's a constant problem then report it to the mods and they may dish out a bitchslapping if warranted.
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That is the most truthful thing I have ever read...:) good one
 
econoline06 said:
often times I have seen people put in time outs or temp-bans for saying very truthful things to people that were freaking out on others
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No one is ever banned, in any instance of which I can think, either temporarily or permanently, for stating their opinion. We have issued time-outs many times for how a person expresses their personal opinion -- we don't tolerate name calling, personal attacks, racial or sexual slurs, etc, and we don't apologize for this.

Also, sometimes, you may see a post by a person who is temporarily banned and draw the conclusion that the person was banned for that post, when in fact the issue at hand was something completely different.

If you see a case where you believe a person was incorrectly banned, you may feel free to PM an administrator to let them know your thoughts. You may or may not receive a response, as bannings and other actions against specific members are between us and them, but you can rest assured that your concern will be read by our administrative team.
 
Funny how intolerant so-called tolerant people become when there is a disagreement over opinion of all things or people use a message board to post a request for info instead of google built right into the Safari UI and the answer is on the top half of the first search results page.

Give a man a fish (taken from 5% of the fishermen for the other 95% apparently) and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime, or until fishing is banned and you go back to eating squirrels or other small animals that you can catch with little effort.
 
I think after you registered, MR should send you an email with some tips as to how to use the forum. Or when you first logged in, there should be a little tip box that appears and tells you to search before starting threads.

That should cut down those notoriously repetitive "should I buy now or should I wait", "when is ___ coming", "which iPod should I get" threads.
 
Samarium said:
Is there any way to force to make a search before making a thread?
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the posting process could run the new subject line thru google, for example:
Code: 
site forums.macrumors.com Help!!!
:)
and then whichever 2004 thread is found, will get bumped.
:)

IJ Reilly said:
As unofficial spokesperson for the UGP (union of grumpy posters) I would like to add that it's not always easy to provide advice and feel like you've made much of a difference. No small proportion of advice-askers tend to be advice-ignorers if the answer isn't what they expected it to be.
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Maybe the advice is too unfamiliar? or seems too complex to perform? so, they hope there's another solution? (i'm guessing...)
 
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