Timeline for Is it okay to tell users to RTFM?
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| May 12, 2016 at 7:51 | comment | added | Alexey Ten | Last quote definitely should be in list of close reasons. | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 18:54 | comment | added | HopelessN00b |
@Rob-d Better yet, just don't bother at all. If they can't be bothered to RTFM, commenting isn't going to do any good. As Jenny answered, just throw on a downvote and/or close vote and move on. shouldn't we make them be better admins Not for free, and not for lazy, jerkoff help-vampires, no. It's not what they want anyway, they just want the codez/someone else to do their job for them. By downvoting and close voting, you get them to a question ban quicker, which means less dealing with their particular crap.
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| Apr 29, 2016 at 13:10 | vote | accept | Sum1sAdmin | ||
| Apr 29, 2016 at 13:00 | comment | added | Sum1sAdmin | i flagged it as discussion | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 12:59 | comment | added | Jenny D | @Rob-d However, as I said, the thing to do is to downvote, and if you can post a comment that's not too snarky (a feat that is often beyond me...), do that. If it's egregiously bad, flag it. | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 12:54 | comment | added | Jenny D | @Rob-d Really doesn't belong here. It might possibly be on-topic at Network Engineering, I'm not sure. | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 12:54 | comment | added | Sum1sAdmin | 1 upvote 2 favourites and an answer, from Google. | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 12:51 | comment | added | Sum1sAdmin | @Jenny - what about this one just in - serverfault.com/questions/773835/why-ethernet-mtu-size-is-1500 | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 12:43 | comment | added | Jenny D | @Rob-d And here's an even better example: serverfault.com/q/665258/120438 | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 12:42 | comment | added | Jenny D | @Rob-d We should. Like this question: serverfault.com/q/694010/120438 - where I voted to close, and added a comment with information about where to find the relevant docs. | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 12:35 | comment | added | Sum1sAdmin | -> i don't think they even stick around that long - but no, I would just throw it out there, it's kind of - shouldn't we make them be better admins | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 12:32 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | @Rob-d If you comment you better use a well wrote comment, as a simple "RTFM"'s comment can get into an argument easily, and get revenge downvoting, etc... | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 12:17 | comment | added | Jenny D | Do you mean meta.serverfault.com/q/872/120438 ? That one is 6 years old; community standards change over time, so it's not necessarily a bad thing to bring this up again. But IMAO it's better to close the question with a good close reason than to just comment with RTFM. | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 12:14 | comment | added | Sum1sAdmin | perhaps there's other issues at play, I can see from the related question that a version of this question was asked before - but it wan't matched when I created mine - same expression in the title 'RTFM' | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 12:09 | history | answered | Jenny D | CC BY-SA 3.0 |