Repeated look-up requests - annoying

[celia]

Hi
I had the same problem yet again recently, someone sent a request by P.M which i  now refuse to use for this purpose.I then copy and paste it on one of my topics and refere them to that.I then found the same request in 3/4 other places.Annoying innit . I seem to have  Taken on a job of travel agent for rootschat the last 12 months Telling folk how to get to there destination. What to do and what not to do some people just plonk a request on any board. I often wish they would reseach rootschat first and learn how to use it. Most of them do get to grips in the end though

Celia

[Keziahemm]

Is this nitpicking? 

I get quite cross after doing a search, along with others, supplying the answers, getting no response from the searcher, only to find the same question being asked again 

It's just wasting folks time.

What do others think?

Susan 

[RJ_Paton]

It's not nit-picking and it is wasting folks time but there is little (IMHO) that we can do about it

options are

1. shout about it
2. do nothing
3. complain to the offending party
4. just remember who they are for future reference
(revenge is a dish best eaten cold)

[Bee]

Hi Susan

No I don't think you are nitpicking, I think anyone who has asked for some sort of look-up/advice should at least have the common courtesy to reply and say thanks.

Bee

[jinks]

I have set a post which as only been part
answered, but I think I will leave it alone
for now but if it as still gone unanswered in
a couple of weeks maybe bring it back to life, by
adding a reply    ie. Look up still needed

but I think less computer literate or new people
to the site may not think or know how to do
this, so while I do find it annoying I am tolerant
of the person making a second request.

Jinks

 

[Paul E]

4. just remember who they are for future reference
(revenge is a dish best eaten cold)

Not quite, Falkyrn...

http://www.nervousnigel.com/html/blancmange_is_a_dish_best_serv.html

 

Paul

[RJ_Paton]

Personally Paul I prefer the chinese version .....
 ...... although no one knows who the old chinese gentleman was  who actually said it.

another one from them is "May you live in interesting times" ........ which is actually a curse.

[tabitha]

Personally I would acknowledge any response to my posts asking for help or information, even if my original question wasn't answered in full.

If I still needed additional info or help I would post a new topic asking for the additional info giving the partial info I received the first time (if relevant) to stop anyone reading my new post from wasting their time.

Posting a reply is no more difficult than posting a new post so I'm afraid I don't count that as an excuse  

A   and a "thank you" costs nothing  but means a lot  

Tabitha (I'll get off my high horse now before I do myself an injury  )

[pixieleigh]

Just a comment,

someone left a reply to one of my posts that "this was a repeated lookup..." having read this post am feeling slightly frustrated.

in this case i hadn't had a "match" in one of the county boards for them, so i thought they might still have been in London, (the family supposedly haveing moved that year) so i posted another request to a different board. they had slightly different information in them and i acknowledged the help of the others who had helped me.  i had to post a new lookup as it was a different county and dfferent information

but...
but i agree with the people that don't reply to posts. if you help someone you expect a thank you at least. or at least some sort of acknowlegement that the information was recieved even if it wasn't what you were looking for.


sorry just thought i'd have to share that. as i was concered that some people might find what i did annoying...i have a significant LACK of chocolate in my system and it is making me grouchy!!! (I'm a girl, what can i say) 

happy hunting
sarah