I think I scream because of the unprofessionalism. First I have to take extra time out to try to read through it, as most of the people I talk to are inteligent enough to use words rather than plz, and a lot of the mangled words have to be spelled out by the reader before I get the idea. Also because these people want someone who can answer their question to take time out of their day, when it's apparent they don't care to make their message look somewhat decent with a spell checker, which takes 30-45 seconds to run, if that.
Thanks, Tyler Littlefield Web: tysdomain.com email: [email protected] My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features. ----- Original Message ----- From: John Gaughan To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [c-prog] Re: doubtttttttt---------please replyyyyyyyyyy Rick wrote: > I agree completely. I was going to say this same thing. We can nudge > people to correct unprofessional posts, but I don't think some of the > terse comments are even understood by the OPs. > I think people see so much of the same thing over and over again: people who through no fault of their own do not grasp the English language well. Some people talk like they are teenagers and sending SMS. I get tired of that, personally. I see management at work using the shorthand "plz" in emails. Management at a software company! These are people with MBAs who communicate for a living, interacting with developers, QA, systems engineers, and above all else, customers! When I come home and see more of it, I shut down. That is why I rarely respond to emails asking for help that are barely intelligible. What is society coming to? THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD!!! (just kidding). > I have posted before about how this board is supposed to be here to > help. Ridiculing the poster is non-productive. Professionalism should > certainly prevail but with a worldwide audience, I don't think we can > expect utopia. > Unless you are in charge of someone's paycheck, do not expect to have much of an effect forcing them to act professional. -- John Gaughan http://www.jtgprogramming.org/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
