I see this all the time on forums, mailing lists, newsgroups and so called expert knowledge websites. Folks responding to a problem without really answering the question but giving all kinds of useless suggestions on the way they THINK someone should be doing something.<\/p>\n
Here is a great example of a completely useless response from a so called Linux Networking Expert Certified Expert Sage Level.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/span>The so called Sage <\/span>opens his response with:<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n This is a great start. It sounds like this sage understand exactly what the person asking the question is looking for. I'm expecting a really good answer from this sage.<\/p>\n This sage's next sentence begins with:<\/p>\n He then proceeds to go way off topic and explains this more generic solution which has nothing to do with the real question. He then goes on to explain a hack type of solution that is going to work for precisely less than 2% of situations. And again, doesn't really answer the original question anyway.<\/p>\n What is worse is that this so called “Experts Exchange” community recommends this answer for points when other answers are clearly more appropriate. I have no idea how this community and points work but I can say that I wouldn't trust any so called sages on this site whatsoever if this is the norm.<\/p>\n