Re: Don't feed the help-vampire
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 6:09 AM, rusi rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: Since identifying a disease by the right name is key to finding a cure: Nikos is not trolling or spamming; he is help-vampiring. I think he's a very dedicated troll elaborately disguised as a help vampire. Remember that one of the names he previously used to post to this list was Ferrous Cranus. http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/ferouscranus.htm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Don't feed the help-vampire
On Jun 14, 4:51 pm, rusi rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 14, 3:20 pm, Fábio Santos fabiosantos...@gmail.com wrote: Come on now, this is _so_ obviously trolling, it's not even remotely funny anymore. Why doesn't killfiling work with the mailing list version of the python list? :-( I have skimmed the archives for this month, and I estimate that a third of this month's activity on this list was helping this person. About 80% of that is wasted in explaining basic concepts he refuses to read in links given to him. A depressingly large number of replies to his posts are seemingly ignored. Since this is a lot of spam, I feel like leaving the list, but I also honestly want to help people use python and the replies to questions of others often give me much insight on several matters. Adding my +1 to this sentiment. Since identifying a disease by the right name is key to finding a cure: Nikos is not trolling or spamming; he is help-vampiring. Lets call it that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Don't feed the help-vampire
Am 14.06.2013 14:09, schrieb rusi: Since identifying a disease by the right name is key to finding a cure: Nikos is not trolling or spamming; he is help-vampiring. Just to explain the trolling allegation: I'm not talking about him wanting to get his scripts fixed, that's help-vampiring most certainly, and an extreme form of that (thanks btw. for pointing me to that term, whoever did). I was talking about his repeated attempts at making conversation by asking questions about encoding, short-circuit evaluation and such which seem like they are relevant for him to solve his problem, but due to his persistence of understanding things in a wrong way/not understanding them at all/repeating the same misunderstandings time after time have drifted off into endless repetitions of the same facts by helpful posters, and have gotten a lot of people seriously annoyed (also, due to other facts such as him changing his NNTP hosts and/or From-addresses which breaks kill-filing). Now, if that latter behaviour isn't trolling, I don't know what is. Simply nobody who takes what he does at least a little bit serious is _as_ thick as he makes himself seem. -- --- Heiko. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
