[rant] HELP! Urgent! ASAP!

[turbo]

Any of these words in a title indicate that you have not kept up with your course-work and you expect us to bail you out. PF is a resource of many, many members with many 100s of years of experience (in total), and you can use this resource to help you learn. Please do not abuse this forum to try to get help to pass the "next" test.

[jtbell]

At least some of them do say PLS or PLZZZZZ. :smile:

[turbo]

At least some of them do say PLS or PLZZZZZ. :smile:Yes, though few bother to actually spell "please". It's so sad.

[rollcast]

I have asked for help before on here but I always allow for time to get replies and for the right people to see my problem, not oh sh1t its 21:00 and I need to hand this in tommorrow at 09:00. Lets stick a OMG I'm so stressed, I need help ASAP, This is SOO URGENT.

The only thing that is urgent is for you to go and wake up and smell the roses and realise that putting a big begging URGENT in the title won't help you get an answer. It just makes you looks like a Twonk and probably puts some people off answering as it makes you look like someone who hasn't bothered to give the problem any real brain power.

[micromass]

Writing "urgent" on a thread usually has an adverse effect on me. It makes me want to help them less.

The funny people are the one who write "Urgent, ASAP!!!", and if they don't receive help within 20 minutes, they write: "You all suck!!!!". I find that usually very funny. :tongue2:

[Borek]

The funny people are the one who write "Urgent, ASAP!!!", and if they don't receive help within 20 minutes, they write: "You all suck!!!!". I find that usually very funny. :tongue2:

Next day they write something like "Because of you I failed the course". At this moment I am usually literally ROFLING.

[Jimmy Snyder]

There must be some way to prevent this kind of posting. Greg, why don't you get cracking and have this fixed right away?

[turbo]

There must be some way to prevent this kind of posting. Greg, why don't you get cracking and have this fixed right away?How about adjusting the obscenity filter to reject "help", "urgent", or "ASAP"?

It's quite annoying to see a problem that I might be able to help with, prefaced with such demands for immediacy. I just won't do it.

[Vanadium 50]

"Because of you I failed the course". At this moment I am usually literally ROFLING.

They never say "I failed". It's always "the teacher flunked me!"

The verbs are:


I earned an A.
I got a B.
It was a C.
He gave me a D.
He flunked me.

[Borek]

At CF obscenity filter replaces "help" with "delete me".

[Ryan_m_b]

They never say "I failed". It's always "the teacher flunked me!"

The verbs are:


I earned an A.
I got a B.
It was a C.
He gave me a D.
He flunked me.

:rofl:

That can be adapted to make a sliding scale of scientist to crackpot;

I just got a paper published!
I have to do some revisions
It was rejected
They're just stuck in their dogmatic ways!
Don't censor me! WHAT IF ENSTEIN HAD NEEDED PEER-REVIEW BEFORE PEOPLE LISTNED TO HIM??!?!11?!11

[rollcast]

:rofl:

That can be adapted to apply make a sliding scale of scientist to crackpot;

I just got a paper published!
I have to do some revisions
It was rejected
They're just stuck in their dogmatic ways!
Don't censor me! WHAT IF ENSTEIN HAD NEEDED PEER-REVIEW BEFORE PEOPLE LISTNED TO HIM??!?!11?!11


You could add another one there.

I HAZ COOL THEORY THAT THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT!!

[Redbelly98]

[rant]Any of these words in a title indicate that you have not kept up with your course-work and you expect us to bail you out.
Or sometimes it means you want to place yourself ahead of others, even though your question really is not urgent.

[DaleSpam]

Any of these words in a title indicate that you have not kept up with your course-work and you expect us to bail you out. PF is a resource of many, many members with many 100s of years of experience (in total), and you can use this resource to help you learn. Please do not abuse this forum to try to get help to pass the "next" test. Hmm, this seems like a great FAQ response. The question could be something like "How do people respond to threads with titles including the words: HELP, Urgent, ASAP, etc.?"