I patronize several hobbyist MBs, and I will just say that they fit under the broad general category of “arts ‘n’ crafts”, okay? So there’s this–person–who during the summer registered at ALL of the boards, with the same user name, and has been posting identical “Can I do this?” questions to ALL the boards. Copy and pasted, no pretense of being a different person.
Now, I dunno how many of you post on hobbyist MBs, but the general feeling is that it’s kind of an insult to post a question on MB #1–“can I do this?”–and when the answer is, “Um, no, you can’t”, to then go find another MB and post the identical question over there. “Can I do this?”
“Um, no.” And then the next day she pops up at MB #3, and then MB #4. Same user name, same Copy and Paste question.
Now, what does she think is going to happen? Is she just asking until she finds someone who will tell her, “Sure, honey, go ahead and do X, it’ll be fine”. Which it won’t, but she won’t listen to us.
And let me make it clear, it’s not a general sort of “advice” question, like “what do you guys think?”, it’s always a very specific question, something dumb and obvious like, “Can I put sugar in my gas tank to get better mileage?” (extrapolate that to arts ‘n’ crafts). We tell her, “Um, no,” and then there she is the next day, at MB #2, asking them/us (because there are a number of us who also post on the same boards), “Can I put sugar in my gas tank to get better mileage?”
And she will also put the same question in several forums, like she’ll put it in the “Gasoline Mileage” forum AND in the “101 Uses for Granulated Sugar” forum.
So, anyway, earlier in the summer I evidently was unwise enough to post a link to something on the SDMB in GQ that answered a question she had, and now this week I see that she’s registered over here.
So here’s a personal message for you, Ms. Can-I-Do-This? Cross-posting is not welcome here on this message board. Just because we have umpteen forums does not mean that we want you to post the same question in all the forums. Please read the forum descriptions and post your threads appropriately.
'Cause, baby, these folks over here got teeth.
[sub]looking forward to her first encounter with manhattan[/sub]
