this thread was mentioned on the java dev forums, and it one huge wtf that dates back to 2001 and just keeps going...

 

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=150293&start=0&tstart=0 

The craziest thing about this is that its real people.. it has to be, right?

plz email me teh codez  

That type of crap always pisses me off. "Developers" (usually of the outsourced variety) jumping on a thread of someone asking for help and asking for the "codes" to be e-mailed to them. The SMS ones really get them going. I rarely see them ask for help, especially in a new thread (it's always thread-jacking).

Oh.. I also agree with reply #320:

masijade:

Nah, let it go. The spam crawlers are happy!

That's hillarious!  It's like all of the crazy, clueless, ESL-speaking, how-the-hell-did-they-ever-get-a-job-doing-anything developers all just banded together in one single thread! Although I'm sure much of it is just people adding onto it for the hell of it.

I like "filestream's" recent reply on page 22, "OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! STOP THIS MADNESS!"

 

post 322 is awesome too.  "email me and I'll give you teh codes.  I promise I will not sell your email address for 1/100th of a cent."

shadowman:

That's hillarious!  It's like all of the crazy, clueless, ESL-speaking, how-the-hell-did-they-ever-get-a-job-doing-anything developers all just banded together in one single thread! Although I'm sure much of it is just people adding onto it for the hell of it.

I like "filestream's" recent reply on page 22, "OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! STOP THIS MADNESS!"

 

OH GOD THERES MORE THAN ONE PAGE!!!! I read like a few posts, said this aint so bad, so some schmucks are asking some other schmucks to get some code, whatever... BUT it goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on... DEAR GOD!

 

I guess that is because is that email send to not wait. ARG regressing English to Brokenenenen English...

petvirus:

this thread was mentioned on the java dev forums, and it one huge wtf that dates back to 2001 and just keeps going...

 

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=150293&start=0&tstart=0 

The craziest thing about this is that its real people.. it has to be, right?

plz email me teh codez  

While you're doing that, perhaps you'd like to sign up for the 2008 warez list?  Now taking early registrations... just post your email address to this thread, along with the words "me too".

 

My guess (desperate hope...) is that there are a few people adding the mass volume of "send codz to me too" messages for fun (most of them, even years old, only have 1 message posted for the account).

On the other hand, it is interesting (in a banging your head into a wall way...)  to look at the profiles for people with more then one post.  A lot of them have 30+ posts that consist of "send codz to me too" and threads where people have tried to answer their question but they just can't grasp the solution (no matter how simply presented).

RocketJeff:

On the other hand, it is interesting (in a banging your head into a wall way...)  to look at the profiles for people with more then one post.  A lot of them have 30+ posts that consist of "send codz to me too" and threads where people have tried to answer their question but they just can't grasp the solution (no matter how simply presented).

Yeah, it's pretty scary. This sort of stuff is actually a very significant part of why I always avoid working with Java or .NET gear. There's just so much awful noise on the community sites.

With the ruby/rails work that I've done, I've always had a better experience. I tend to annoy a local rails group for help, and generally at least one person on the IRC channel will know the answer, and noone expects to be mailed the code.

I'm sickened by the cheapening of the software industry. Hell, there's a little newsstand at my local train station with a billboard up offering software/web development services. Lord knows what their quality control is like. 

drinkingbird:

I'm sickened by the cheapening of the software industry.

I'm with you on that one.

Wow, who are these people and have they heard of that new thing called google?  i like the way on about the second post one poster says to try the JavaPhone API and then in the next post the OP asks for a link to it, just to try it out i put JavaPhone API into google and the first hit is a page where you can download it.  I've always found the people who post on forums like that to be quite strange, i mean do they just post and then sit around waiting for a reply?  I bet in the time it takes to get a post back on the forum you could have just gotten off your arse and actually figured out what you need to do.  I'm waiting for a post something like:

The functional specification of the project i'm working is here.

Plz send me teh code, its urgent!!! 

Plus with that sort of thing i'm guessing they want code that they are going to just paste in without really understanding what it does, i'd love to see some of their finished projects.  I reckon you could probably give them some code with a huge backdoor vulnerability in it and they would just paste it into their code, if you did you could get your backdoor access to a whole bunch of really poorly written outsourced to india projects.  Or just put in something that displays a message box on april fools day metioning that this code has obviously never been checked or audited and has just been pasted directly from an example.

The other thing that strikes me as odd is these people have managed to get a degree or job without even having basic research skills, i mean how do they think other people find the links that they want to send them?

shadowman:

That's hillarious!  It's like all of the crazy, clueless, ESL-speaking, how-the-hell-did-they-ever-get-a-job-doing-anything developers

 

My assumption has always been that the guys who ask those kinds of questions are kids, hobbyists or students.  Maybe I'm being optimistic.

 

 

 

element[0]:

Wow, who are these people and have they heard of that new thing called google?  i like the way on about the second post one poster says to try the JavaPhone API and then in the next post the OP asks for a link to it, just to try it out i put JavaPhone API into google and the first hit is a page where you can download it. 

It's not entirely improbable that they used google to find that thread[1]. It's using it twice in a row for slightly different searches that some people find difficult o_O.

 
That, plus the fact that some people'developing' developers appear to have this theory that using a message board or email list is, somehow, a quicker and more efficient search engine. Based on empirical evidence only I'm afraid.

 

[1] Indeed - it comes up under the 2nd match for "java sms" 

This looks like a queer mix of bots posting bait, hired peons posting bait (and thus behaving gramtically like a bot), and, weepingly enough, real persons genuinely asking for teh cod3, apparently incapable of general text/document comprehension.

I find the last post (on page 22) funny:

i have actually recieved this code from the original poster. if anyone wants this code please send me an email at: amylcusick-[at]-yahoo.com i am now in the process of sending it to the people who asked for it in the last few pages. it works really good actually. ~ amy

They'd better prepare for a whole heap of people emailing them about it :P

Find that stupid?

http://kerneltrap.org/node/5772

It's only six pages, but the quality of stupidity is amazing :>

PonyGumbo:

shadowman:

That's hillarious!  It's like all of the crazy, clueless, ESL-speaking, how-the-hell-did-they-ever-get-a-job-doing-anything developers

 

My assumption has always been that the guys who ask those kinds of questions are kids, hobbyists or students.  Maybe I'm being optimistic.

 

 
Perhaps some of them are, but I've gotten the impression a lot of these people are actually working at a job somewhere.  I see a lot of this kind of stuff on newsgroups and oftentimes the subject is URGENT -- NEED FOR CLIENTS or some other oddness.  It's like the standard in some places is just to BS your way into a job and then worry about figuring out how to do it later. 
 

I like the two posts in a row, the first giving a link to a tutorial, and the second asking if there is a tutorial.  Hooray for reading comprehension (or probably bothering to read at all.)

 

P.S. 

I'm executing a generous project currently involving the effect of laziness on dev forum posting.  plz some kind one should mail me teh WTF?

PJH:

element[0]:

Wow, who are these people and have they heard of that new thing called google?  i like the way on about the second post one poster says to try the JavaPhone API and then in the next post the OP asks for a link to it, just to try it out i put JavaPhone API into google and the first hit is a page where you can download it. 

It's not entirely improbable that they used google to find that thread[1]. It's using it twice in a row for slightly different searches that some people find difficult o_O.

 
That, plus the fact that some people'developing' developers appear to have this theory that using a message board or email list is, somehow, a quicker and more efficient search engine. Based on empirical evidence only I'm afraid.

It's not limited to developers.  I probably should cut the following people some slack because they're just ordinary Google users (not necessarily posing as developers or experts), but some things really boggle the mind.

On the day that gmail added IMAP service, the option was slow to propagate to all users.  Some had the option available right away, and others didn't for a few days.  I had some other unrelated issue, so I went to the gmail help forums.  I'm not exaggerating, almost the entire first 5 pages of each forum was filled with users asking and answering the EXACT SAME QUESTION! With almost the EXACT SAME SUBJECT LINE!  "Why don't I have the option for IMAP?  This isn't working!"  And almost every single one was answered the same way (just wait, it will be available within a day or two...).  Wtf?  Not one of those people could bother to read anyone else's response about the same issue?  It wasn't even like they had to go digging for it.  And it would have been much faster than waiting for a personal response.

 
 

Jetts:

I like the two posts in a row, the first giving a link to a tutorial, and the second asking if there is a tutorial.  Hooray for reading comprehension (or probably bothering to read at all.)

 

P.S. 

I'm executing a generous project currently involving the effect of laziness on dev forum posting.  plz some kind one should mail me teh WTF?

plz mail 2 me 2 thx realname@my-business.com

MrTweek:

Find that stupid?

http://kerneltrap.org/node/5772

It's only six pages, but the quality of stupidity is amazing :>

It's amazing how many people reposted the WRONG answer (like "mkdir \\.\\c:\con", with an extra backslash) and were then CONFIRMED CORRECT by others!

I'm amazed that I'm into the fourth page of the Kerneltrap thread, and nobody has yet given the Most Correct answer to "How do I create a folder named CON in Windows", which is "Don't. You should use a different name that isn't already reserved for a system device."

trwtf is that I believe some of these people might fail a Turing test.