HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Former Member]

I think I do not need to add anything else to this thread.

[Former Member]

What I do when I see something that looks "wrong" is report it to a moderator. If he or she agrees with me then the thread can be locked.

Rob

[Former Member]

Your right Rob -:) Thanx for pointing that out...

Greetings,

Blag.

[Former Member]

But with Blag ( the Terminator ) in action, you don't need to notify.. he is doing an awesome job in the ABAP forums..

Arya

[Former Member]

Like this one:

Rob

[Former Member]

Thread already locked -:) That kind of people should go to www.rentacoder.com or something like that...Annoying -}:(

Greetings,

Blag.

[Former Member]

Thanks Aray! -:D I just do my best to clean up the house -;)

Greetings,

Blag.

[Former Member]

Seems like an echo:

Rob

[Former Member]

Thanks again Rob...You make my job a lot more easier -;) Sadly...There are people that would never learn...Post have been locked...

Greetings,

Blag.

[Former Member]

A couple of weeks ago, I spotted a thread where the poster had made a total of five posts and had fifty points. When I looked at all of the guys answers, they were all off the wall and/or out of context. They were also all answers to questions from the same person. I pointed this out to Rich and the threads are no more; deceased, pushing up the daisies somewhere in the cyber-underworld.

Actually - kind of fun to look out for this sort of thing.

Rob

[Former Member]

Not meaning to beat a dead horse, look at this guy:

<a href="https://forums.sdn.sap.com/profile.jspa?userID=3680063">https://forums.sdn.sap.com/profile.jspa?userID=3680063</a>

I promise to stop now.

Rob

[David]

Hi All,

We really have two levels of punishment.

Prison and the Death Penalty.

Prison is administered by the Moderators - simple post deletions or thread locks.

The Death Penalty is administered by me (sdn@sap.com) and that means your UID is deleted from everywhere.

There are obvious cases where the Death Penalty gets meted out such as points cheaters, solicitations for employment, and requests for copyrighted material.

For other infractions, we generally leave these to the individual forum moderators to decide. I hesitate to start a trend of Death Penalty for stupid questions as this might lead certain govenmental organizations to start the same process for parking violations

David

[former_member374]

> The Death Penalty is administered by me (sdn@sap.com)

> and that means your UID is deleted from everywhere.

>

Death Penalty sounds super hard, until you realize for good or bad that reincarnation under a new identity is swift and painless.

Your reputation is flushed and you start out white as a shirt.

I would love to have some mechanisms in between. Something like a jail. You thread gets locked and you can't post for a week and 10% of your points are gone.

My fear is of course that it will be a badge of honor and people will print T-Shirt: Spent a week in the SDN Slammer.

Would be good nevertheless, Mark.

[KjetilKilhavn]

> My fear is of course that it will be a badge of honor

> and people will print T-Shirt: Spent a week in the

> SDN Slammer.

Ahhh... wouldn't the SDN contributor shirths be much better if they had some more text on them:

Never went anywhere - just worked

At least I got this T-shirt...

You may think I am weird, but that is still legal in Norway

PS for those who didn't "geddit":

Been there - done that

Bought this T-shirt

[Former Member]

That sounds like a good idea. Additionally you might think about changing the registration process. Propably you should only take users with a S-Number already known at sap. Of course there will be others like students .... that will be treaten differently but... as long as it is possible to register just with any valid email address the problem will exist.....

Siggi

[Former Member]

I like your suggestion Siegfried. Maybe the registration process should be:

If you register with a valid "S" number, you have unlimited privileges on the forum.

If not, you are only allowed a couple of postings per day. Additionally, maybe these could be "screened" by moderators before actually being posted.

Rob

[eddy_declercq]

Hi,

This S-number idea has been launched by Grumpy in /people/eddy.declercq/blog/2007/08/27/from-the-grumpier-old-man-my-name-is-not-bond-james-bond

Eddy

[Former Member]

Eddy - in your blog, you are arguing against anonymous registration. I'm not going that far.

Just copying an idea from the blogs where they have junior bloggers whose work has to be checked by moderators before being released. Im not sure there are enough moderators to handle that task, but if there questions were limited in number (and maybe flagged as "junior"), it might not reduce the noise, but it might make it easier to filter out that noise.

Rob

[ChrisSolomon]

Who is the "Grumpy" of which you speak? grin

[David]

Hi All,

Unfortunately, limiting the availability of the site to just S users is not an option. One can only get an S userid through either being a member of a partner organization, being a member of a customer organization, or undergoing a certification exam which grants you a limited one (1 year I think). All 3 options are generally out of the reach of most people due to cost. The original concept behind SDN (and later BPX) was to also allow access to those who are independent consultants or developers of somewhat modest means. Please note, our new Subscriptions program is in keeping with this philosophy by offering developer licenses for some SAP products at a far reduced cost over what they would sell for to a business customer.

Best Regards,

David

[Former Member]

Since it's locked I'll post the solution here:

REPORT ZMYREPORT.

WRITE:/ 'Hello World'(HWO).

Well he didn't say what it should do, did he.

Do I get a T-Shirt?

[Former Member]

David, see Rob Burbank's suggestion of having two classes - the lower (those without an S id) with a limit of 5 questuions per day or some such.

You could even promote them if they prove themselves.

[thomas_jung]

Ok it is hardly a solution, but I had to throw some of my thoughts out there. I put them in the linked thread, so they may not be widely read - but I meant what I said. More than anything I feel sorry for these people because I can't believe that they find anywhere near the statisfaction with their jobs that many other people have.

[eddy_declercq]

Anton,

I must disagree. If we don't point things out and just watch and laugh/complain about the situation, things remain as is. I agree that Thomas' remark won't stop them, but at least it's more than nothing.

Eddy

[Former Member]

I think it's not our(coffee corner lurkers') duty to do any whistleblowing. we just chatter about some 'noticeable incidents' and it's completely up to the ops to take any measures or not. therefore I don't report anything but bugs to to sdn att sap dot com.

just my 2 cents,

anton

[eddy_declercq]

Hi,

Again, only solution is to report things to sdn@sap.com

Eddy

[Former Member]

They are aware, nothing is done.