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

[it's EMG]

Thanks for the advice, Micah!  I'll go ahead and do just that.  :)


On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Micah Cooksey <micah at ronnykathy.com> wrote:

> 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.
> _____________________
> 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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