[QUOTE]Originally posted by psi0nic

I have noticed since soming to the AO forums that there is a funny thing that goes on here.
First thing everyone notices these things but we dont rant on about it.....


Tutorials. I have seen tutorials ripped straight from someone else's site
I have cut and pasted some tutorials and always given credit, in fact take a look at my tuts and you'll see. I post them because some ppl just browse these forums and dont visit other sites where the tuts may be found.



`How do i hack [insert exploitable thingy here]?'
Come on now, there are a hundred sites and irc channels where you can get this info. It is like asking 'how do I do a drive by?' 'How do you pick a lock?' `How do you roll a joint?' Not only are these the kind of questions that reflect badly on the poster but on any responders that help out. They just aren't the kind of thing that is appropriate at a site where the intent is to improve the readers knowledge of securing a system or systems. A genuine interest in how a thing is done is a different story though for the prupose of knowledge and a better understanding of security.
This has been debated so many times, rant rant rant we know, every forum experiances this you are not the first to notice, just ignore what you dislike and focus on what you deem neccesary.


Polls. Polls are ok, but how many `What OS?' Polls do we actually need floating around out there? `Should I stay or should I go?' and other such things are alright but I would recommend keeping these to a minimum. A great suggestion on any forum is to look back into the threads pretty far before posting to see if the issue has been covered or not. ( Which I did not do in this case, I felt like bitching and was too lazy to read all the other gripes of the past) I have noticed that when someone does post to an older thread it hits the main page anyway, so it isn't like these get completely buried and forgotten.
Here we go again, heard it all before......

Im not trying to flame you just point out that posts like this will not stop the problem or make us all go, ahhh I never realised we had these problems!
The more rants posted the more distraction from real issues we recieve, if I was not posting to this I would be doing something more constructive or helping someone out but I feel it is a subject that needs to be pointed out to people.

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