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Dennis Meng
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Real-time case:

A desperateddesperate user has posted the same question (some borderline between programming and configuration) to many SE sites. The problem is badly defined, but there are SCREAMINGS that this is URGENT and he BEGS FOR HELP.

The user is surely aware that posting his question everywhere to increase the chance of getting an answer is a bit isof an egoistic behaviourbehavior, but he thinks his problem is more important than the others.

How would you deal with such users? What measures would you take:

  • simply closing as off-topic and informing that is off-topic and why
  • downvoting
  • comments informing that such behaviourbehavior is innacteptableunacceptable
  • spam flags or any other attempts to block such user
  • something else?

Real-time case:

A desperated user has posted the same question (some borderline between programming and configuration) to many SE sites. The problem is badly defined, but there are SCREAMINGS that this is URGENT and he BEGS FOR HELP.

The user is surely aware that posting his question everywhere to increase the chance of getting answer a bit is an egoistic behaviour, but he thinks his problem is more important than the others.

How would you deal with such users? What measures would you take:

  • simply closing as off-topic and informing that is off-topic and why
  • downvoting
  • comments informing that such behaviour is innacteptable
  • spam flags or any other attempts to block such user
  • something else?

Real-time case:

A desperate user has posted the same question (some borderline between programming and configuration) to many SE sites. The problem is badly defined, but there are SCREAMINGS that this is URGENT and he BEGS FOR HELP.

The user is surely aware that posting his question everywhere to increase the chance of getting an answer is a bit of an egoistic behavior, but he thinks his problem is more important than the others.

How would you deal with such users? What measures would you take:

  • simply closing as off-topic and informing that is off-topic and why
  • downvoting
  • comments informing that such behavior is unacceptable
  • spam flags or any other attempts to block such user
  • something else?
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Cjxcz Odjcayrwl
Cjxcz Odjcayrwl
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Real-time case:

A desperated user has posted the same question (some borderline between programming and configuration) to many SE sites. The problem is badly defined, but there are SCREAMINGS that this is URGENT and he BEGS FOR HELP.

The user is surely aware that posting his question everywhere to increase the chance of getting answer a bit is an egoistic behaviour, but he thinks his problem is more important than the others.

How would you deal with such users? What measures would you take:

  • simply closing as off-topic and informing that is off-topic and why
  • downvoting
  • comments informing that such behaviour is innacteptable
  • spam flags or any other attempts to block such user
  • something else?
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