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    From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to All on Sun Mar 16 11:52:51 2025
    Boy, recently I have ran into a bunch of people that are anti-documentation.

    Even with something like synchronet where it's pretty well organized and you can following along while you do what you're trying to do, people get
    enraged when i say to check out the documentation because there's examples
    in it. That's what I did when I would setup something or run into issues.

    It seems like these lazy people want you to lay everything out on a silver platter. I mean if something's in a section on the docs, it's in that section. do they expect us to cut and paste it from the docs for them every time?

    these askholes are just a waste of time.
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to MRO on Sun Mar 16 15:05:51 2025
    Re: sad state of sysops
    By: MRO to All on Sun Mar 16 2025 11:52 am

    Boy, recently I have ran into a bunch of people that are anti-documentation.

    Even with something like synchronet where it's pretty well organized and you can following along while you do what you're trying to do, people get enraged when i say to check out the documentation because there's examples in it. That's what I did when I would setup something or run into issues.

    It seems like these lazy people want you to lay everything out on a silver platter. I mean if something's in a section on the docs, it's in that section. do they expect us to cut and paste it from the docs for them every time?

    these askholes are just a waste of time.

    The definition of "askhole" is someone that continually asks for advice and then doesn't follow it (e.g. does the opposite). While annoying, I don't think it's the same thing. "Anti-doc" (the term you gave) might be a better term for the behavior you're describing above.
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  • From paulie420@VERT/BEERS20 to MRO on Sun Mar 16 16:01:00 2025
    these askholes are just a waste of time.

    Look @ MRO getting around the MRobot!! :P

    ... I agree with you that ALL the same questions w/o RTFM are... a thing. :/



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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Digital Man on Sun Mar 16 20:01:20 2025
    Re: sad state of sysops
    By: Digital Man to MRO on Sun Mar 16 2025 03:05 pm


    The definition of "askhole" is someone that continually asks for advice

    and
    then doesn't follow it (e.g. does the opposite). While annoying, I don't think it's the same thing. "Anti-doc" (the term you gave) might be a better term for the behavior you're describing above.

    Well This guy is on reddit saying he'll pay someone to setup sbbs on ubuntu.

    I DID give him advice (follow the wiki) and said if he gets an error msg share it here because he might have caught something new. Then he blocked me.
    apparently nelgin said the same thing too.


    https://i.imgur.com/MgS7kD6.png

    i got the askhole word from my buddy who used to breed dogs.
    he would have people come over pretending to buy dogs but they were just wondering how he did things so they could do the same. they wasted his time asking questions.

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