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So reading forums is life and death for you? You need to get out more. Also, this comparison assumes that I just have sex with anyone who wanders by. That's a failure of a comparison any way you look at it.
The example is just to illustrate the point that, not disclosing can be the same as deceiving. It's an extreme case.
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You seem to take way more offense at cross posting than any normal sane person would. I'm not harming you by not telling you that I've searched elsewhere for help. It does in no way harm you. You are freely wasting your time reading message boards. You are freely wasting your time by replying to posts. There's no law or rule that says "If you post anywhere else on the internet, you can't post here!"
Why is there no such rule? Because that would be stupid.
Like I said before, I am NOT wasting my time discussing on forums. My time is valuable, and I want it to be useful, to both myself and others.
There's no law saying you can't cross-post. There's also no law saying you have to use code tags.
Though I would support adding a rules for the forum - "If you cross-posted in another forum, they must be linked from your post here".
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You negate your own argument by the very fact that YOU are all three tellers. YOU are checking three message boards, and replying in three different places. YOU are wasting YOUR OWN TIME by not staying on one board. You are your own enemy.
I am not? I never go on and even less post on other programming boards. The 2 other tellers are other people.
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It's not discourteous to ask multiple people for help. If it were, message boards in and over their very nature would be self defeating. Unless you lock a thread after it has 1 reply, then your argument has just failed itself. The very nature of message boards let multiple people answer the same question. What does it matter if they are all answered in the same thread? It doesn't.
Again, I am NOT against cross-posting, which seem to be all you are arguing. I AM against cross-posting AND not disclosing the fact that you are cross-posting.
Multiple replies are fine if everyone can see all replies.
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We've already established that multiple answers by multiple people are not guaranteed to be the same exact answer, and that every answer is simply a wording variation. So you've just shot off your other foot.
Multiple answers can be helpful and unhelpful. If you don't know what other people have said, there is a higher chance yours will be unhelpful.
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Your entire argument boils down to "I should be allowed to be selfish, not the guy asking for help!" The guy asking for help has no idea that any of you are even there. It's like shouting into a dark room, and hoping someone is there, then walking to the next dark room and shouting into it. He doesn't know if anyone is around. Why should he stand around for hours at one door way, when there is another one right across the hall?
No it does not. And it's not the same. If you are someone in the dark room, you'll just turn around, see the person is no longer there, and turn back to your own business. You have only expanded minimum effort.
It's like shouting into a dark room, asking everyone to write a poem for you, and after they are done, they realize the person was gone right after he made that request. He already got the poem from another guy. He just told everyone to write one for him, so he can get it as soon as possible. Of course, everyone thinks they are the only one writing the poem. Everyone else just wasted time writing a poem. Is that fine by you, too?