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Help vampires ask the same tired questions continually in the hope of someone else doing their work for them.

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There was this question: How can I run psexec on the remote PC which isn't in my network? In my opinion it was off-topic for two reasons: a) should be on Super User, b) asking for tool recommendations....
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TL;DR — Apart from manually comparing notes with the Identifying Help Vampires check list, and manually trawling through users' post history, what tools — if any — does SO/SE provide for Stackers of a ...
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A user is spamming another user & I for help in solving his problem. The spamming happens as he writes a comment with the @<ourname> and then wait a little... delete that comment and write ...
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Today I had a question which I answered. The person clearly couldn't use PowerShell. I've provided three times an answer to the question updating the code, only to see the exact same code I've ...
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In the past nine hours I noticed a series of similar questions from the same user, regarding the same topic, but in incremental steps. Here is the first question: Error in Code with Quadratic Formula ...
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I just came across a "Gimme teh codez"-type question here, and a quick net search showed the same username over in Microsoft's ASP.NET forums posting the same low-quality questions as s/he posts here (...
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Sometimes a user will edit their question after answers have been posted, making already existing answers obsolete. The common and accepted course of action is to rollback the question to its original ...
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We have many answers about what to do about no-effort “Plz send codez” questions, but invariably we get enablers justifying doing these peoples' work for them with remarks like “we were all beginners ...
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A lot of work is going into making new users ask better questions, and I can only applaud the effort. I'm still wondering though, what about "grandfathered" users who consistently show that they don't ...
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For some days now I have a back and forth on the comments with the questioner of this post: MakeValid not working for a single model object which is a continuation (under my suggestion) of this post's ...
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Sometimes new users struggle to make obvious questions for several reasons. I like to be a good boy and try to help us anyway: at least try to make them "feel" what the community expects to see for a ...
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now deleted as well as the account This is a self admitted copy of How to parse a C array in a .c file using a python script? now deleted as well that was posted under a completely separate account/...
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A user has been posting a series of related questions over the last couple of weeks. The questions all deal with continuing to figure out how to communicate with a workout session manager, so ...
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Just the other day, I encountered an atrocious question from a user whose reputation would make you believe they'd know better than to ask such a question. They also didn't respond meaningfully to ...
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I am a young active user here at Stack Overflow and very new here at Meta. I have noticed one user taking benefits egoistically from other users by just asking questions and never validating the good ...
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