Help Vampires

[sffvba[e0rt]

In this blog post by Jorge Castro he has a link to a very interesting blog post called Help Vampires: A Spotter’s Guide... I would recommend it as it is a very good read

It’s so regular you could set your watch by it. The decay of a community is just as predictable as the decay of certain stable nuclear isotopes. As soon as an open source project, language, or what-have-you achieves a certain notoriety—its half-life, if you will—they swarm in, seemingly draining the very life out of the community itself.
They are the Help Vampires. And I’m here to stop them.

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[3Miro]

This is old. There was a thread about this maybe 3 years ago. I read the blog, but I don't recall the actual thread.

Yes, Help Vampires are real and we should work together to stop them. Although, I don't see them as being an issue on this forum.

[Bandit]

* Does he ask the same, tired questions others ask (at a rate of once or more per minute)?
* Does he clearly lack the ability or inclination to ask the almighty Google?
* Does he refuse to take the time to ask coherent, specific questions?
* Does he think helping him must be the high point of your day?
* Does he get offensive, as if you need to prove to him why he should use Ruby on Rails?
* Is he obviously just waiting for some poor, well-intentioned person to do all his thinking for him?
* Can you tell he really isn’t interested in having his question answered, so much as getting someone else to do his work?


Seriously I would ask this to be put in the "terms" for using the forums. But Help Vampires wouldnt read them anyway...