This is not a Newsgroup

Please! There are so many community resources for getting help with your .NET technical problems. If you don't want to use the Microsoft Newsgroups, then go to CodeWise community and that will lead you to many communites that have forums and newsgroups. www.gotdotnet.com/codewise

Many of the people who blog actually spend a lot of their own personal time hanging out on these newsgroups and forums answering questions. That is where to get help. Not by randomly choosing a blogger and filling out their contact form."
[Julia Lerman]

Please don't blog your tech support questions either. That is what the newsgroups and forums are for. Opening up a question for discussion to your readers is one thing, but "how do I get this select statement to work" makes for very boring reading.

8 Comments

  • Jesse, I think that's going a bit too far... I'd like to be able point out tough problems I've been having on my blog, and people seem very happy to help out(Even you replied to my blog question). Blogs are personal and if the questions are .net related, I don't see how writing questions on them can make for bad blogging. If people don't like the blog, they just won't read it , nor reply to questions on it.

  • The problem is that it still gets put in the main feed, which doesn't filter out those types of requests. With the thousands of people that read the main feed each day, of course you are going to find a few people willing to help out, but, IMO, you a misusing your privledge by doing such things. It is just common courtesy not to spam everyone with your problems. People come to the blogs to learn, not to answer people's questions. Once again, that is what newsgroups and forums are for, not what the blogs are for.

  • I don't think that Roy or anyone else is misusing their priviledge by posting blog questions. I *DO* learn from reading blog questions/problems. If I come across a question that is related to something I have experienced, then I will be interested enough to read further. Even if it's a problem that I know the answer/solution to - it's nice to read the comments on the blog and see the approach that others have taken.


    So - blog questions ARE useful.

  • Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of the matter. You can rarely find an issue that someone isn't going to disagree with you on, and I'm done arguing. Those who don't get the point yet obviously won't get it any time soon.

  • 98% of the stuff on anyones blog falls into the category of "Interesting, but not something I absolutely need to know this instant."





    If I post "Here's a gnarly issue I ran into, and here's the solution.", you would probably say that's a good blog post, as it informs people. But if I post "Here's a gnarly issue that I ran into", and someone else posts the solution, then you're saying that's a bad blog post?

  • Yah, there is a fine line there, I will admit. The problem is that most of these posts are not "I ran into a gnarly issue," they are, "ok, I spent five minutes on this and can't figure it out... I'm too lazy to use google, so I'll just post to my blog."



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