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Close to 45 medical questions in 3 days?? Stricter Kudoz limits please!
Thread poster: Nesrin
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With May 5, 2010

all those who indicate that professionalism (Nesrin, Schauen, Metzger, Evonymus, polyglot45, ...) includes knowing your limitations and observing them. Selling oneself as a specialist in say medicine without being one is not professionalism but charlatanery (to keep the register); however there may be good pragmatic or organizational reasons for accumulating a number of questions and posting them collated. For this latter reason a reduced member limit would not be very useful. Instead deciding n... See more
all those who indicate that professionalism (Nesrin, Schauen, Metzger, Evonymus, polyglot45, ...) includes knowing your limitations and observing them. Selling oneself as a specialist in say medicine without being one is not professionalism but charlatanery (to keep the register); however there may be good pragmatic or organizational reasons for accumulating a number of questions and posting them collated. For this latter reason a reduced member limit would not be very useful. Instead deciding not to answer such questions seems to be the easiest way to go.


[Edited at 2010-05-05 11:00 GMT]

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Fiona Grace Peterson
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RuleZ May 5, 2010

Ronald van der Linden wrote:

And, in the case of 75 questions. If you notice that these questions are very easy to be solved by looking into a dictionary, why not simply write the asker and point out this information? And, at the same time offer your editing services to help out.


Ronald I fear this may be against the KudoZ rules also....
 
Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL
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glossary building? May 7, 2010

Nesrin wrote:

I know we're not talking about one individual case, but the colleague subject of the original post recently asked 74 medical questions in 8 consecutive days (that's the 60 allowed per week + 14 qs)...


Maybe he/she simply works on a dictionary/glossary and wants a second opinion on some terms?

BR
S
 
Evonymus (Ewa Kazmierczak)
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@Stanisław May 9, 2010

Stanislaw Czech wrote:

Nesrin wrote:

I know we're not talking about one individual case, but the colleague subject of the original post recently asked 74 medical questions in 8 consecutive days (that's the 60 allowed per week + 14 qs)...


Maybe he/she simply works on a dictionary/glossary and wants a second opinion on some terms?

BR
S


very funny
 
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synergy May 9, 2010

Evonymus, it's more amusing to see so many people pretending to do Administrative and clerical procedures - just a free external inspectorate)

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