UniMord
Active Member
- Joined
- May 6, 2002
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I enjoy using the MrExcel Message Board and appreciate when people take the time out to answer my questions. Even if the person misunderstood the question or is plain, flat out wrong, the fact is, he was trying to help, so I thank him. This, I would think is common courtesy.
At the moment I'm fuming because somebody asked a question which required some time, ingenuity and about 35 lines of VBA code. I worked hard on that (okay, so I'm not the fastest VBA'er around, it still took time), and nothing but silence. Not a thank you, not a response, zilch. Yes, the asker could be away on vacation, in jail, sick or dead, but in all likelihood, it's just plain ol' bad manners.
My question to the members of the jury: is there an acceptable way chide ingrates on this board? If yes, in what way, and how much time do we give them first? I was thinking of something along the lines of posting a link to some article about saying thank you, similar to how we deal with cross-posters with a link to http://www.excelguru.ca/node/7. On the other hand, perhaps we shouldn't get started with this sort of thing at all. Bear in mind, I'm not talking about short answers (for which a thank you still doesn't hurt), I mean where the answerer went out of his way to help.
Thank you,
UniMord
At the moment I'm fuming because somebody asked a question which required some time, ingenuity and about 35 lines of VBA code. I worked hard on that (okay, so I'm not the fastest VBA'er around, it still took time), and nothing but silence. Not a thank you, not a response, zilch. Yes, the asker could be away on vacation, in jail, sick or dead, but in all likelihood, it's just plain ol' bad manners.
My question to the members of the jury: is there an acceptable way chide ingrates on this board? If yes, in what way, and how much time do we give them first? I was thinking of something along the lines of posting a link to some article about saying thank you, similar to how we deal with cross-posters with a link to http://www.excelguru.ca/node/7. On the other hand, perhaps we shouldn't get started with this sort of thing at all. Bear in mind, I'm not talking about short answers (for which a thank you still doesn't hurt), I mean where the answerer went out of his way to help.
Thank you,
UniMord