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

[Micah Cooksey]

I went ahead and nullified the link just in case he's spamming.
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Micah Cooksey
micah at ronnykathy.com




On Mar 3, 2010, at 5:41 PM, it's EMG wrote:

> 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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