Re: Black Balling Practices in this Group?
From: BP (replytoall_at_dufus.net)
Date: 06/05/04
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Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 19:32:31 -0400
I've found over the years that every newsgroup has it's own 'personality'. A
lot has to do with the personalities of the regulars who camp out on the
board. I was (am) subscribed to alt.windows98 for years until this spring
when I built a new box and installed my first version of XP and started
hanging out here. It took me a while to get used to the difference between
the two groups. There is much less discussion and/or argument here. And far
fewer direct answers to questions but rather links to Websites where you can
find it yourself. You rarely see more than one or two responses to a problem
which I think is due to the "he's got it" syndrome with the regulars. After
being here a while you can see why this is. This group gets 10 times the
volume that alt.windows98 ever got even in 98's heyday. I lurk to pick up
tricks and tweaks and sometimes it is just too damned much crap to wade
through even when you're not a responder. Then there is the FAQ syndrome. I
am a somewhat knowledgeable person in my own field and reply to questions
posed on another group. I often find myself skipping over the same old
questions that have been answered a hundred times figuring that someone else
will get it and they usually do. But it is a less active board. I've found
it faster and easier at times to use google's newsgroup search function to
query issues and found that there are hundreds of hits on the topic. A lot
of the MVPs here have websites with lots of XP info. Collect and save the
links and just go there first, it is usually faster than waiting to see if
you get a correct response here. If you get ignored it would probably help
to be more forceful in your subject line when you repost the question.
"Edw. Peach" <bogus_addie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:8pg3c0tr3aufpfd5ntata6goopmdng396s@4ax.com...
> I posted a message a while ago, and made what I thought was a humorous
> comment about MS's great wealth and power in the computer industry,
> and since that time I've posted about five messages on various WinXP
> problems and received no help at all, not even a single reply. I have
> left my 'humorous' comments out of my comments...
>
> Do you people, esp. the 'real' Microsoft experts who are paid by the
> company, somehow have a way of labelling group members and tag one
> another not to comment on a particular naughty member's questions? It
> sure seems that way. ;)
>
> Don't forget, I do support you and spend hundreds of dollars in
> Microsoft software, and continue to do so.
>
> If that is your practice here, just let me know OFFICIALLY
> (inotherwords, someone who is legitimately a member of the MS staff)
> and I'll stop posting questions.
>
> Thanks
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