Don't feed the help-vampire

rusi rustompmody at gmail.com
Fri Jun 14 08:09:05 EDT 2013


On Jun 14, 4:51 pm, rusi <rustompm... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 14, 3:20 pm, Fábio Santos <fabiosantos... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Come on now, this is _so_ obviously trolling, it's not even remotely
>
> > funny anymore. Why doesn't killfiling work with the mailing list version of
> > the python list? :-(
>
> > I have skimmed the archives for this month, and I estimate that a third of
> > this month's activity on this list was helping this person. About 80% of
> > that is wasted in explaining basic concepts he refuses to read in links
> > given to him. A depressingly large number of replies to his posts are
> > seemingly ignored.
>
> > Since this is a lot of spam, I feel like leaving the list, but I also
> > honestly want to help people use python and the replies to questions of
> > others often give me much insight on several matters.
>
> Adding my +1 to this sentiment.

Since identifying a disease by the right name is key to finding a
cure:
Nikos is not trolling or spamming; he is help-vampiring.

Lets call it that.



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