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Tuesday 26 August 2008, 10:17 PM
Hurray, suspended again
The EE administrators again show their "POWER" by suspending my account.
What better proof of power mis-use you can want?
Adding a reference to show where an "expert" got his knowledge from is seen as "violation" as this is their #1 MVP Access expert.
The real hilarious part in this is the fact that the referenced comment with the used solution is criticized by this same expert as you can read in my "Never fight a PissingSkunk" blog.
Moreover the EE rules state that an expert needs to refer to where his sources come from and this violation by the #1 MVP Access expert is (as usual) never acted upon.
This action does show that the admins aren't capable of moderating this site. Again they didn't had the politeness of informing me of this action on forehand. Don't they know that people really get agitated when this is forced upon them. Perhaps time for a refreshment moderating course.
Nic;o)
What better proof of power mis-use you can want?
Adding a reference to show where an "expert" got his knowledge from is seen as "violation" as this is their #1 MVP Access expert.
The real hilarious part in this is the fact that the referenced comment with the used solution is criticized by this same expert as you can read in my "Never fight a PissingSkunk" blog.
Moreover the EE rules state that an expert needs to refer to where his sources come from and this violation by the #1 MVP Access expert is (as usual) never acted upon.
This action does show that the admins aren't capable of moderating this site. Again they didn't had the politeness of informing me of this action on forehand. Don't they know that people really get agitated when this is forced upon them. Perhaps time for a refreshment moderating course.
Nic;o)
Sunday 24 August 2008, 1:42 AM
The Experts Exchange Quest for expert points
Once upon a time a Computer Hardware Engineer started to learn MS Access without any knowledge of database design and application development. A rather common way to start for an amateur, but he also discovered the Experts Exchange site.
He found out that posting one-liners from the F1 Helpfile and Googling for links did pay off in Expert Points and that got him hooked up.
One day a "colleague expert" asked him to elaborate on his comments to teach the questioners "the trade", but that was a bridge too far. Afraid his gap of knowledge would become evident he called the "colleague expert" names and continued to "help" himself to the expert points. Erroneous design or not properly normalized database structures were "supported" by him as he couldn't see the errors himself, so helping questioners to follow the wrong design path.
All other real experts were ignored and he didn't hesitate to post similar solutions without referring to previous comments made by other experts. When some experts started to cleanup questions, to make sure that the experts were rewarded, he found out that answering questions earned more expert points than doing cleaning up and thus decided never to put any effort in this exercise. Although he did got the benefit (points!) from it.
You would of course expect that this tale would have a happy ending, where someone did teach this expert to behave more social and to do something in return for the cleanup volunteers, but no. This expert was rewarded with the MVP status by Microsoft and a cleanup volunteer posted even a “Congrats” question for him reaching the 10,000,000 points mark. (See http://www.experts-exchange.com/Q_23670196.html)
I’m glad to have found http://bytes.com where no cleanup is needed and where experts value each other for their knowledge.
Nic;o)
He found out that posting one-liners from the F1 Helpfile and Googling for links did pay off in Expert Points and that got him hooked up.
One day a "colleague expert" asked him to elaborate on his comments to teach the questioners "the trade", but that was a bridge too far. Afraid his gap of knowledge would become evident he called the "colleague expert" names and continued to "help" himself to the expert points. Erroneous design or not properly normalized database structures were "supported" by him as he couldn't see the errors himself, so helping questioners to follow the wrong design path.
All other real experts were ignored and he didn't hesitate to post similar solutions without referring to previous comments made by other experts. When some experts started to cleanup questions, to make sure that the experts were rewarded, he found out that answering questions earned more expert points than doing cleaning up and thus decided never to put any effort in this exercise. Although he did got the benefit (points!) from it.
You would of course expect that this tale would have a happy ending, where someone did teach this expert to behave more social and to do something in return for the cleanup volunteers, but no. This expert was rewarded with the MVP status by Microsoft and a cleanup volunteer posted even a “Congrats” question for him reaching the 10,000,000 points mark. (See http://www.experts-exchange.com/Q_23670196.html)
I’m glad to have found http://bytes.com where no cleanup is needed and where experts value each other for their knowledge.
Nic;o)
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