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@hawhill:

that is a very noble position... but...

I think that nobody here is unwilling to help newbies. And nobody here is expected to know everything. However:

- techiemonkey has repeatedly been informed that his posting style is considered rude and disrespectful. This didn't lead to any change in behavior.
- techiemonkey has repeatedly been informed in more or less direct ways that he should put at least some own effort into trying to solve problems, before asking questions.
- techiemonkey has repeatedly proven that he is not willing to adhere to standard netiquette, nor to even try any problem solving on his own, before conveniently throwing his problem into the forum and asking for someone else to solve it.

Given those many "repeatedly" instances, and no perceivable change in behavior, I honestly don't see why we should be spending any effort.

Just to make this clear again: no, this is not meant "against" newbies who don't know better. It's also not targetting people who (probably unknowingly) misbehaved once or twice. But it does refer to people who don't even bother to invest a minimum amount of effort to solve their own problems, but conveniently ask for others to solve them. And in this particular case, that comes bundled with a gross disrespect for those others, who are expected to solve the problem, as well.