[geeklog-devel] Dumb User Day

[Marc Von Ahn]

I think the best idiot user issue I have come across is a private 
message from a user on some forums i had set up asking how to send 
private messages

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 07:56  AM, Tom Willett wrote:

> Forgive me if I rant a little, I have just run across what have to be 
> three
> of the dumbest users I have ever encountered.
>
> For example:
>
> I had a guy email me about the External Pages Plugin.  He could not 
> figure
> how to use the templates to make an external page.  So I had him send 
> me the
> page he was having trouble with.  I set it up for him and sent it 
> back.  He
> writes back to say it didn't work -- after several emails I determined 
> he
> had never bothered to install the plugin.  Ok I sent him the url to the
> download page.  He writes there are a lot of files on that page which 
> one is
> it.  I write back 'The one that says External Pages Plugin'.  He still
> cannot find it and wants the direct url!  I give up.
>
> --
> Tom Willett
> tomw at pigstye.net
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