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  1. Dec 9th, 2005, 02:18 PM #1
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    Sometimes you just want to reach out and slap...

    Check out the response I got to trying to help this person...

    http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...81#post2274581 - post #5

    Whew - I'm trying to hold back...

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    Re: Sometimes you just want to reach out and slap...

    My advice would be to just let it go.
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    Re: Sometimes you just want to reach out and slap...

    Quote Originally Posted by MartinLiss
    My advice would be to just let it go.
    Martin - I was just venting - I've got 5 year old twin boys - I know when to count to 10 and let it go

    I actually thought it was more humorous then offensive...

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    Re: Sometimes you just want to reach out and slap...

    Quote Originally Posted by szlamany
    Check out the response I got to trying to help this person...

    http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...81#post2274581 - post #5

    Whew - I'm trying to hold back...
    Anytime you want to rant and rave about something/someone, feel free to send me a PM and blast away and get it off your chest! I won't mind in the least.
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    Re: Sometimes you just want to reach out and slap...

    Hack - thanks!

    You know I enjoy the "banter" of other developers challenging each other on this forum the most. If we all felt one way then we wouldn't need the dozens of dedicated people posting solutions - some similar and some very different!

    I think that was the first time someone told me to get out of there thread - now - leave!

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    Re: Sometimes you just want to reach out and slap...

    szl - I know how you feel, I got downrated this week because someone wasn't clear about their situation and they felt I gave bad advice that "wasted computer space." I won't name names though.

    Hack - does that go for everyone!? I'm a week into not smoking and ready to go nuts.
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    Re: Sometimes you just want to reach out and slap...

    Quote Originally Posted by sevenhalo
    szl - I know how you feel, I got downrated this week because someone wasn't clear about their situation and they felt I gave bad advice that "wasted computer space." I won't name names though.

    Hack - does that go for everyone!? I'm a week into not smoking and ready to go nuts.
    I think the "up-rep" you gave me today helped me from blowing through the roof with that posters comment!

    Thanks for that!

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    Re: Sometimes you just want to reach out and slap...

    Quote Originally Posted by szlamany
    I think that was the first time someone told me to get out of there thread - now - leave!
    Welcome to the club!
    Quote Originally Posted by sevenhalo
    Hack - does that go for everyone!? I'm a week into not smoking and ready to go nuts.
    Only if another member is making you crazy. I'd rather have you yelling at me in a PM then them on the open forum.

    Congrats on the smoking thing by the way.
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  11. Dec 9th, 2005, 05:42 PM #9
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    Re: Sometimes you just want to reach out and slap...

    You might have felt differently if he had 20 posts to his name.
    I saw his response, and came "this close" to nixing his post, on account of his "user-error", but decided against it.
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    Re: Sometimes you just want to reach out and slap...

    Odds are, he's a kid who's not just new to VBForums, but new to forums, period. You can't always solve someones entire programming problem in one post. It will sometimes take many posts from many people. He'll grow up eventually.
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    Re: Sometimes you just want to reach out and slap...

    szlamany,

    Welcome to this exclusive club
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    Re: Sometimes you just want to reach out and slap...

    wow. He was a bit short with people trying to help him. That doesn't get your questions answered over the long haul -- especially when they were giving more than he was asking for.....


    I couldn't resist and had to post into the thread since nobody had actually answered his *real* question.

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    Re: Sometimes you just want to reach out and slap...

    Alot more sleep and a little less coffee might go along way to sort this highly strung problem out I think..

    Time for Dr Tranquiliser (or a hammer to the back of the head...)
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    Re: Sometimes you just want to reach out and slap...

    After reading that, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Laugh at the "Keystone Cop" like adventure that was.... or to cry that this represents a growing trend I've seen in the newer/younger crop of developers out on the horizon.

    Kudos to those who did their best to hang in there.... I would have unsubscribed to the thread long before the end.

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    Re: Sometimes you just want to reach out and slap...

    your posts , just to comment not to help
    you have inceased the following

    1- host bandwidth
    2- host space
    3- post replies

    and wasted my time

    why is that?

    no offense.
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