Internet Leaches
Has anyone noticed that lately, there has been a slew of low quality development websites or forums that leach the information of other sites and forums except present it really badly. I wish they would just f-off.
What's also bad is when they present forum threads in that really old style with one post then links below for Next Reply, Previous Replay, Next Topic and Previous Topic. They never seem to go where you expect and are really unintuitive.
What's also bad is when they present forum threads in that really old style with one post then links below for Next Reply, Previous Replay, Next Topic and Previous Topic. They never seem to go where you expect and are really unintuitive.
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you mean a mailing list? :)
a lot are just for advertising / domain squatting.. so yer they are a bit s*** / waste time
think of it like the pizza leaflets / fake charity bags , but the online version hehe
I dislike ones who charge for something thats free BUT have a high rating in search engines..
passport companies , but if you go direct it's free IRC
errm
companies house is another one , that others just re-use
No they have quite literally ripped of a forums data and reconstituted it as their own.
My colleagues got done on that one when the USA started requiring registration before travel. The only problem is the US did little to stop it and in the end started charging themselves.
same with when you found out flying back recently the big gap in prices.
the funny one for London is... Leicester square ticket shops.. LOADS of advertising for it.. BUT there is only 1 true OFFICIAL ticket shop in the corner of the square.. others charge far more for the same, but getting the benefit of the officials shop advertising.
It also really annoys me when in those pages the respondents string out their vague replys, but never actually address the core issue being asked. It's just a vain way to increase their post counts and thus look mighty.
Typical scenarios that really get up my nose are.
OP: If I do XYZ I get a null pointer exception why.
Reply: Show me some example code.
OP: Shows simplified example code
**NO FURTHER RESPONCES - MODERATORS CLOSED THREAD DUE TO BEING OLD**
I could have answered this question from the initial post alone.
The other varient of this is
OP: If I do XYZ I get a null pointer exception why.
Replay: What do you mean by X and Y exception.
OP: Clarifies.
Reply: Show me some example code.
OP: Shows simplified example code
**NO FURTHER RESPONCES - MODERATORS CLOSED THREAD DUE TO BEING OLD**
Or worse still
OP: If I do XYZ I get a null pointer exception why.
Reply: Yeah, it does not work like that.
OP: Well how do I achieve this then??
**NO FURTHER RESPONCES - MODERATORS CLOSED THREAD DUE TO BEING OLD**
and finnaly then there is this.
OP: If I do XYZ I get a null pointer exception why.
Reply: Why are you using an X when you could do ABC.
Reply2: Why would you do ABC when you can do ABC but with knobs on.
Reply3: Actually its not ABC its CBA.
Reply2: Well ys I was going for CBA then I would go for an ADF dink dank doo over, over a four by two polling listener, on an augmented thread using an MVC pattern and Singleton instantiator with a double insulated serialisiable wrapper class using 128 bit encryption.
Reply: Why would you use a serialisable wrapper when there is the 'Insert Framework or API here'.
Basically it becomes a pissing match with the OPs beginner question slidelined.
I see the above examples on a daily basis, any combination of all four happen can and often appear in the same thread. Its so annoying. Then you get the forum mods to criticise posters for starting new threads on an existing topic, or criticise them for hi-jacking existing or old threads. It seems the only way to get timely assistance is just to bend over and take it.
One name that seems to pop up often usually with and arrogant I'm on an ivory tower style response is CamikR. Often helpful but equally often just vague and or supremely arrogant.
It's doubly annoying because you get some forums which are genuinely helpful (although you get the odd troll) and folks go out of their way to help you. My dev work involves SQL Server 99% of them time and the SQL Server Central forums are brilliant. I've learnt so much from those guys and gals over the last few years.
That's why the control-m official forums are so tightly locked - you have to show evidence that you are using the software, and which company you work for!
On the plus side, everyone there is extremely helpful.
still sounds like a mailing list archive to me...
No its ripping the forum posts - for example, I set up wosforums.com & nick all the forum posts & put them in my site.
http://stackoverflow.com/ is good, cause the crappy pissing contest responses that don't answer the question get voted down
aye, I've seen those sites (actually mostly I see ones doing usenet groups) but I've never seen one presenting it in that mailing list archive format, always a page of replies one after another.