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Too tired of sh*tposters - How about a user blacklist thread to save our time?
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hans:
StackExchange is probably a better fit for a question-answer system which is rewarded for good behaviours and as little offtopic matter. This forum software is more tailored towards discussions. And I think thats working quite well, because quite often topics can go onto tangents which are educational in its own right. Or they get (derailed) to the point it stalls, and even that doesn't have to be bad, thats just how IRL also goes sometimes.

Feeling burnt out from internet forums has happened to me and as I said before.. it has learnt me to recalibrate where and how much energy I want to put into some discussion. Not everything I post has to be thanked a million times or praised by everyone to make it worthwhile for me. If that was the case then posting on forums would be as toxic as posting on social media and getting a dopamine rush from upvotes/likes.

But yeah.. I can understand that knowing if someone benefitted from some large effort would be nice. But hey.. ghosting via internet is a huge problem everywhere. So I guess forums aren't excluded from that? I don't know if there really "exists" a solution to 'shitposters' or people that just run with an answer. IMO encouraging any system which would reward "the established" (or punish otherwise, like ignore lists) can diverge into an echo chamber, elitism or an onetasteworld.
John B:
The title of the thread should have been:

Too tired of sh*tposters - How about a user blacklist thread to save our time? Do you agree? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°,)
py-bb:

--- Quote from: DavidAlfa on October 07, 2023, 09:09:58 am ---User 1 asks question, gets lots of answers, never comes back, doesn't answer anything, he just wasted our time analyzing and answering his dumb questions. He does it again, and again...
User 2 asks to get helped out with some tedious work like programming, reverse engineering. We get the job done for free, then he also disappears or moves to something else without giving a f.
(...)
User 100 keeps spamming the forum with silly questions. "The board is is square, should I use a square base to mount it?" - No, use a hexagon :palm:. We all know this user starting with F and ending in arington.

Sincerely, we could make a community blacklist. Not to be abused because he likes pinneapple pizza and I don't, only for legit causes and must be a repeating behavior.
So we simply add those time wasters to our ignore list and filter the junk.

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I strongly disagree. In fact I think block-lists are over-used.


I have asked a few questions and revisted much later, I'm also embarrassed about a brain fart or two :P
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: PlainName on October 07, 2023, 07:49:06 pm ---
--- Quote ---I've spend hours helping people out to later find out they were made of smoke.
--- End quote ---

If it's any consolation, other users as well as the OP often benefit from answers, so it's not all wasted :)

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Yes, that's the whole point of forums. When you ask questions or answer them, it can benefit a lot of other people. A forum is not made for a private discussion or one-on-one consultation.
Anyone expecting that (and yes, there are people who expect just a free consultation) should consider actually paying for consultancy in a formal setting. Just saying.
DimitriP:

--- Quote ---We get the job done for free, then he also disappears or moves to something else without giving a f.
(...)
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You know the names, avoid reading their posts, especially when they are the  original poster. and never ever ever ever reply to such a thread.
Never; ever.
No matter how enticing the question and or easy, straighforward the answer is to you because you happen to be an expert in the subject  matter.
I also skip the "review my board", why dosn't this circuti work on the breadboard, it runs great in *spice, or anything about "which oscilloscope... buy, r which multimeter to buy, no matter how the question is actually worded.

and of course always skip the threads with "How to safely measure.....<whatever> (usually mains) :) 

Oh yea and before I forget. Don't post on such threads!

I'll stop now before I tell you how I really feel!!!  :horse:

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