Help me !!!

One thing I notice quite often is that people in programming forums today seem to think that 'help me' is a meaningful subject for a post. As if they are the only ones who need help today. This guy takes the cake tho:

Help Help Help Help Help Help Help please help me

Hai everyone i am rohit pokhrel from nepal i am trying to develop a video/audio requesting system in c# in which users can request songs by pressing the key pad in the phone but the main problem i cant trap the key press event. Can anyone please help me.................


He can't work out how to handle a keypress event, and he thinks that's the only problem he has. The same guy, same day, posted the following to an ATL/STL forum:

Respected, all i am trying a web page which needs to display clients computer name and local time in clients computer....when viewing a page stored in another server computer........plz help me

The site in question gives every user a page which lists their personal details and lets anyone post in a forum dedicated to this user. So, a forum that no-one is ever going to look at, unless they know the person and/or want to contact him. In this, hidden away forum, he posted this:

I am looking for a code for web application in asp.net which contineously(i.e say 1-5 sec) updates the database table.I tried to use ajax timer control but cant get solution.What should i do to fire my events in every 5 seconds..............plz its urgent

Later, he found the ASP.NET forum:

I am looking for a code for web application in asp.net which contineously
( i.e say 1-5 sec ) updates the database table.I tried to use ajax timer control but cant get solution coz it refreshed the page at given interval but not raised a event my airthmetic ie:
int i;
private void timer_tick(........)
{
i=i+1
label1.Text=i.ToString();
////database update codes//////
}
What should i do to fire my events in every 5 seconds..............plz its urgent

So, he doesn't initialise i with a starting value, he expects the value of i to persist between page postbacks, and in fact, this code has not been tested b/c he's not sure how to get his timer to post back his page. AND in all of this, he abandoned the best solution (AJAX), because he couldn't work out how to use it. That is assuming that the obvious solution ( two lines of javascript ) was in some way unacceptable.

I found other posts where he's asking how to write stuff in VB6. The common thread here is that you have someone who obviously has only the barest understanding of how to write basic code, who appears to be taking any job that comes his way, and then is desperately posting to try to get someone to do the work he's incapable of doing.

To be clear here, I don't blame anyone for being a learner. What I object to, is the fact that he's being paid to do this work that he's incapable of. If the same person posted and was working in one area, with a view to learning it, I'd be the first to help them ( in fact, I generally AM the first, and the one most likely to take the time to work through from a stupid question, to identifying the real issue, to providing a proper solution ). But the people who tend to be doing paid work, tend also to be uninterested in links to resources, discussion of programming techniques, etc. And, at the end of the day, who is to blame ? Is it Rohit Pokhrel ? Not really, the issue is with the people offering to pay him peanuts in Western terms, but presumably more money than he can make locally, to do work he's incapable of, without ever bothering to do anything to see if he's actually able to do the work, or knows anything at all about the subject at hand.