[wp-forums] Questionable Post? How to Handle Said Post and an Introduction

[Micah Cooksey]

Hi EMG,

You can use the 'Modlook' tag to attract attention from the moderators  
to a specific post.  so, if it violates the forum rules (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/68664 
), you can add the modlook tag and it will be reviewed.  A good number  
of the mods subscribe to the modlook tag's RSS by email, so it will  
get looked at really soon after you tag it.
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Micah Cooksey
micah at ronnykathy.com




On Mar 3, 2010, at 5:05 PM, it's EMG wrote:

> Hey everyone!
>
> I (EMG, that's me) recently answered a question in the forums and  
> after I
> answered it, I started getting some strange feelings about the post  
> that I
> answered.
>
> The topic is here:  http://wordpress.org/support/topic/371281? 
> replies=2
>
> And the reason I felt strange was because when I looked at the  
> user's site,
> I saw NO blue or red boxes anywhere (and my resulting response was  
> rather
> generic) but saw instead cream colored boxes.  Also, it was only an  
> hour
> between their request for help and my answer so I was figuring that  
> the
> problem/issue wouldn't have been solved already and therefore would be
> showing blue or red boxes or a combination thereof.
>
> To be honest, given the user's type of site and given the fact that I
> couldn't find said blue and red boxes (am I blind?), I felt like the  
> user
> was simply asking for 'help' to gain more exposure for his/her site.
>
> My question is:  What is the best way to handle a situation like  
> that where
> one feels that a user is simply posting a request for help/opinions  
> to gain
> exposure rather than to actually get help?
>
> In relation to that, am I totally off the mark in my impression of   
> that
> user's support topic that I described?
>
> In other news, hello to everyone.  :)
>
> I finally got around to subscribing to a few Automattic-related and
> WP-related lists including this one and thought I should drop a line  
> here
> and say hello to everyone who I have run into around the forums.
>
> Cheers!
>
> ~ EMG
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