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June 9th, 2001, 08:29 PM
#1
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 Re-Evaluate how you post
What is your average percentage of tech-related posts from your total? Some of us post an awful lot of our totals at the Tech Lounge.
I've been bad, I must admit my posts are about 35-50% technical maybe (don't check me on that one).
What about all of you?
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June 9th, 2001, 08:34 PM
#2
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Probably about 90-95%. I try to stay out of the Tech Lounge as much as possible, since that's where 97% of the trouble starts! I'm much more interested in helping people and getting help/advice than anything else here.
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June 9th, 2001, 08:43 PM
#3
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Feel free to look at mine. I'd say they are in the 90s for technical ones. I don't play in the Tech Lounge either. I just don't have time.
Matt
"If you have been tempted into evil, fly from it. It is not falling into the water, but lying in it, that drowns"
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June 9th, 2001, 08:45 PM
#4
Ummmmm did you really start a topic on posting,non tech that is,in a non technical posting area?You little hypocrit <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">
(No I didn't post here to raise my posts.please don't count this as one...lol)
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June 9th, 2001, 09:11 PM
#5
i used windrivers as a place to avoid work, and wind down from my day... every once in a while i'll ask for help, but every time i ask for help, i give help where i can about 5-10 times.... but i mostly use windrivers to be with people of similar interests, and i don't see anything wrong with that
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June 9th, 2001, 09:25 PM
#6
Originally posted by DaOnly123Kid:
<STRONG>i used windrivers as a place to avoid work, and wind down from my day... every once in a while i'll ask for help, but every time i ask for help, i give help where i can about 5-10 times.... but i mostly use windrivers to be with people of similar interests, and i don't see anything wrong with that</STRONG>
Agreed. I don't see anything wrong with it, but since so many people are starting to bitch about it, I've set up own board for the people of Windrivers to post non-tech stuff on. Right now it's just kind of a test to see what kind of reaction it gets. If enough people show an interest, I might switch it to UBB soon, and put it on a real server.
Either way, you probably won't be seeing as much of me here at Windrivers any more.
As for me, I don't post as much on the tech forums as I used to. Since I got out of retail, I don't work with the wide variety of new hardware like I used to, and all of our machines here use Red Hat Linux 6.1 or later, so I don't get much hands on with different versions of Windows. The only time I really respond on the Tech Forums is when it's something that I have or work with myself.
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June 9th, 2001, 10:03 PM
#7
Registered User
I dont post alot on the other boards...dont feel like i know enough to be much help. I do read there alot! I use them as a learning tool.
Post here alot though.
Failure is not an option -- its a "feature" of Windows.
Mama never told me geekhood was gonna be like this.... 
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June 9th, 2001, 10:32 PM
#8
Registered User
dont we all have anything better to do .. im sick of this .. geez man do we always have to drag this crap out again an again ...
Life is like a bowl of rotten cherries that molden over
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June 9th, 2001, 10:43 PM
#9
Registered User
I sandbag the Tech Lounge a lot without posting. It is very entertaining to follow the events in this forum without having to get involved. The majority of my posted are in the drivers forums, Tech-to-Tech, and the OS forums.
L
Welcome to four more years of the most dangerous presidency in history.
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June 10th, 2001, 02:00 AM
#10
Registered User
Most of mine are in the lounge. Everytime I go to a technical subject that I would love to answer, there's already plenty of help available from previous techs posts. I don't want to post any redundancy if I can help it. But every chance I get, if I have something to add that could potentially help, then I post. After all, it's not about quantity, it's about quality. It's about helping to solve problems. So even if 95% of posts are in the lounge, it doesn't matter, as long as the intent to help remains.
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June 10th, 2001, 05:54 AM
#11
Registered User
Originally posted by DJSEARCHING:
<STRONG>Ummmmm did you really start a topic on posting,non tech that is,in a non technical posting area?You little hypocrit <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">
(No I didn't post here to raise my posts.please don't count this as one...lol)</STRONG>
me neither!
<IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0">
Mr Miyagi, by any other name... (is this sig short enough?)
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June 10th, 2001, 05:58 AM
#12
Registered User
Originally posted by 6DöG9:
<STRONG>Most of mine are in the lounge. Everytime I go to a technical subject that I would love to answer, there's already plenty of help available from previous techs posts. I don't want to post any redundancy if I can help it. But every chance I get, if I have something to add that could potentially help, then I post. After all, it's not about quantity, it's about quality. It's about helping to solve problems. So even if 95% of posts are in the lounge, it doesn't matter, as long as the intent to help remains.</STRONG>
that's not always the case. many times i have been to a question with loadsa replies; providing you read ALL the words, i can usually submit something useful.
what gets me is when people post the same answer as yourself/someone previous, or they post something completely off.
IMHO <IMG SRC="smilies/cool.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0">
Mr Miyagi, by any other name... (is this sig short enough?)
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June 10th, 2001, 06:42 AM
#13
I really can't say I keep a record. When I feel I can have fun in the tech lounge, I post there. When I see a problem that I can provide some assistance to in the non-tech boards I go there. It is as simple as that.
My post count isn't really something I care about that much. Sure it is fun to get your own avatar at 200 posts or when we all joke around with the toga and wet t-shirt party at 1000...but after all that it doesn't matter.
I post a lot here but if there's a problem I can provide assistance to on the tech boards I will.
Wind Rivers Resort...relax, have a drink, get help with your computer.
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June 10th, 2001, 09:06 AM
#14
Registered User
I assume I've got more posts here than in all other areas combined.
To me it's simple really - By the time I get to a tech thread, the questions have been successfully answered almost every time!
You guys are too good.
I enjoy this particular area because it gives me an area to share with fellow techs. It is a therapy, of sorts <IMG SRC="smilies/tongue.gif" border="0">
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -Douglas Adams
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June 10th, 2001, 09:40 AM
#15
Originally posted by JMM:
<STRONG>What is your average percentage of tech-related posts from your total? Some of us post an awful lot of our totals at the Tech Lounge.
I've been bad, I must admit my posts are about 35-50% technical maybe (don't check me on that one).
What about all of you?</STRONG>
Who cares about totals? Yeah, if I'd jumped in on the infamous "Word Association" thread, I could be a god by now. SO? I didn't, frankly because I just don't care. This is as bad as the "I want stars" gripe of so long ago. In closing, whatever.
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