• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
programming forums Java Mobile Certification Databases Caching Books Engineering Micro Controllers OS Languages Paradigms IDEs Build Tools Frameworks Application Servers Open Source This Site Careers Other Pie Elite all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
Marshals:
  • Campbell Ritchie
  • Jeanne Boyarsky
  • Ron McLeod
  • Paul Clapham
  • Liutauras Vilda
Sheriffs:
  • paul wheaton
  • Rob Spoor
  • Devaka Cooray
Saloon Keepers:
  • Stephan van Hulst
  • Tim Holloway
  • Carey Brown
  • Frits Walraven
  • Tim Moores
Bartenders:
  • Mikalai Zaikin

Annoyances

 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 2823
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
1. Posting the same question in multiple forums.
2. Posting in a wrong forum just because there is more traffic.
3. Posters who refuse to look at the API or attempt to solve their own problem before asking a question. At least make the effort.
Sorry for the venting.
 
"The Hood"
Posts: 8521
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Ditto
 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 3244
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Ditto...
plus the following:
people who title the subject like "help, urgent!!!" or "java question"
people who post the same question to as many forum as they can.
 
Wanderer
Posts: 18671
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I agree. On the other hand, after yesterday there's something rather refreshing about such mere "annoyances".
 
Paul Stevens
Ranch Hand
Posts: 2823
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I may not have even noticed those things except I came on here to try to take my mind off of things and those kept popping up in each forum. There was no tolerance on that day.
 
arch rival
Posts: 2813
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Here is one for the pile,
I create mock exam questions and ask "What will happen when you attempt to compile and run this code". In my answer I say what will happen. Then I get emails (or postings at the ranch) saying
I think the given answer is wrong.
I think, I think! why not just say, I can't bothered to compile it but want someone else to spoon feed me an explanation. But I get some really nice emails and lots of thanks as well so I shouldn't complain.
Marcus
 
Paul Stevens
Ranch Hand
Posts: 2823
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Notice how little things that didn't bother you much before just bug you right now. Thanks for your work Marcus.
I think your answer in question 15 exam 2 is wrong
 
High Plains Drifter
Posts: 7289
Netbeans IDE VI Editor
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Personal pet peeve: A subject line like "What's wrong with this code?" followed by 50 or more lines of inscrutable spaghetti, all flush left aligned, and variables i,j,k and class names AAA, BBB, CCC.
------------------
Michael Ernest, co-author of: The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide
 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 31
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Here is my grievance.
I have been on JavaRanch a lot more lately and have been reading and posting a lot more lately and I want to know why some people have OBVIOUSLY fake names yet somehow keep posting and keep posting and even make ranch hand, etc.
I thought there was a naming convention?
Am I missing something???

 
Theresa Faulkner
Ranch Hand
Posts: 31
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Concerning my above comment:
These are registered users. Not the unregistered ones. I am aware of that.
Thanks.
 
Sheriff
Posts: 9109
12
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
We try to keep on top of fake names. Can you list (or email) some examples?
 
Jim Yingst
Wanderer
Posts: 18671
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
If they're just posting inside Meaningless Drivel, we generally don't enfoce the name policy there. But if they post elsewhere, their account will probably be blocked. Feel free to let us know of names we overlook outside Meaningless Drivel.
 
Cindy Glass
"The Hood"
Posts: 8521
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Plus you have to be careful with that "obviously fictional" stuff. Recently we reprimanded a guy for signing up a Peter Pan. Turned out that is was his REAL name and he had to re-register as Pete Pan. How embarassing for us .
 
Theresa Faulkner
Ranch Hand
Posts: 31
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
OK.
I'll let you know of anyone I notice outside of Meaningless Drivel.
Thanks.
 
Rancher
Posts: 13459
Android Eclipse IDE Ubuntu
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I have another peeve:
Just noticed that people are replying to previous threads in a new thread rather than continuing the old one.
I'd noticed it before but a lot more in the last couple of days.
Dave.
 
Cindy Glass
"The Hood"
Posts: 8521
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Yeah but almost always it is someone who is new and has not yet figured out how to use the buttons .
 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 1067
2
IntelliJ IDE Spring Java
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
People who quote the entire previuos post in their post, instead of the portion which they are actually refering to.
 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 5040
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

I hate urgent, help, plesae help msgs.....
IMO, you don't have to say it.
When you say it be polite, say it in the body somewhere
not as the topic subject....
Just so I don't abuse these people, I ignore such posts...
Sorry, better to ignore than be harsh/rude
And yes, I agree all others.
Hope people read these and aviod the absue.
- satya
 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 158
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
What annoys me is people who get great programming jobs because of who they know, not what they know. I had a fried who worked at a video store. He had a customer who came in frequently, and chatted with him and got to know him slightly. This man owned a software company. Because he liked the way my friend sounded, he gave him a job developing software. We were in the same class, the first programming class in college, Programming Principles I using C++ and he lands a 50k a year job programming in SmallTalk, now in Java. And I know for a fact I code better than him, in any language and make better grades all around! And I can't get my foot in the door to save my life. It urks me to no end.
 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 2379
MySQL Database Spring Java
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

If i offer someone free drink in this ranch and he refuses it... ...but none refused so far....
------------------
Muhammad Ashikuzzaman (Fahim)
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java� 2 Platform
--When you learn something, learn it by heart!
 
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic