I don't think I have made Olin's "Bozo" list, but I have made his "Silly" 
list, which I wear as a Badge of Honor.  And I think he likes Pookie.

What I see is students and othere who don't want to make any effort 
themselves and expect you to do the class assignment or project for them. 
And the class assignment is always "urgent" as it is due the next day.

I guess the best thing to do on here is to do some "homework" before posting 
a question.

Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olin Lathrop" <olin_piclist@embedinc.com>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 6:15 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Microchip forums


> John Nall wrote:
>>> I also think the PIClist
>>> has a lower ratio of totally clueless bozos asking stupid questions.
>>
>> That is because the PIClist has a fearsome reputation for savaging
>> totally clueless bozos asking stupid questions.  :-)
>
> I guess it's working then.
>
> Actually the clueless bozos get whacked more on the Microchip forums in my
> opinion.  Its just that there's always another bozo.  Probably once a day 
> or
> two one of them posts the same stupid questions to multiple forums despite
> the FAQ explicitly saying not to do that.  Because the forums are run by
> Microchip some people feel they are entitled to help there even though
> Microchip is very clear that it is peer to peer support only.  I've
> suggested that any posts with "urgent", "respond quickly", or "deadline" 
> in
> the title be summarily discarded and the user automatically blocked for 
> the
> next 12 hours, but Microchip is reluctant to do that for some reason ;-)
>
>
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