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1:01 AM
I hope I ain't one of those ;)
obviously the solution is to create a help vampire database of those that have "issues"
 
1:24 AM
@William I don't like the term
but we do actively discourage people from coming on chat just to ask questions.
 
but there is a cross road of bad questions on the site vs bad questions in chat
that I am not sure which is better
its not like help vampires even no what they are asking for a lot of the time
 
Well RA etiquette is generally hang out first
Then complain a little
Showing your work is good too
 
I don't say that is a bad idea but some might call that smalltalk
which certainly doesn't hurt anyone
but I agree with hanging hopefully helping somebody else is a good idea
 
Well, smalltalk is fine
Don't forget, SE has a space for asking questions
The thing with chat is its our 'only' social space
and a lot of us oldschool IRC folks remember when a channel becomes nothing but people going "HEY! LOOK AT MY PROBLEM!"
 
IRC lol those were the days
 
1:36 AM
Well a lot of the design of SE chat is "informed" by IRC
 
2:21 AM
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A: I build a website in wordpress, it looks great in chrome, but skewed in internet explorer

FollowerOfLelouchIt looks fine in firefox. You should really refer yourself to the documentation of tools you have used to make the website if you want the website to look cool in every major website. However if you are talking about internet explorer browser, the old browser used in previous windows editions th...

User makes it appear, I indicated that IE is not installed, on modern versions of Windows.
The quoted text, the way it's written, makes it appear I am saying the entire statement
A bunch of links, and a quoted text from me, should not be considered an answer.
I just deleted my answer. Problem solved
 
3:13 AM
question's closed shrug
 
 
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4:23 AM
I didn't get to see the post from a day or two ago that sort of crossed the line into plagiarism. But reading the conversation, is the basic takeaway from it something along the lines of "don't quote an entire article"?
 
4:36 AM
@n8te - Yes
 
Got it
 
@n8te Yup
Quote as little as possible, paraphrase as much as possible, and attribute and you should be fine
 
Sounds reasonable. I see that you're still battling with your quest to get people to understand chat isn't tech support. Kind of looks like your message went right past its target in that last convo :)
 
Oh its more complicated than that ;)
Actually its about someone somewhere else + I don't really like the term and help we have
but rather than call people terrible and unfriendly, well, I was thinking better guidence ;p
 
Well, keep up the good fight. I think if I had to do your job for even a few months my heart would turn completely black.
 
5:43 AM
@DavidPostill Thanks, just what I needed.... Du'oh!!
 

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