What todo with those who keep on answering basic questions - Your thoughts?

Question

Hi Experts,
I have been active in ABAP Development Forum and usually hit the abuse button around 50 times a day.
And most of the cases is for posting queries which are very basic and can be searched in SCN or in any Search engine.
Example: The specified item was not found.
Subject : BAPI
Question :
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muralireddy manyam wrote:
> whats the  difference between normal function module and bapi function module?
Although this is the mistake of the poster, i can see around 5 - 10 replies for such posts in a few seconds. Most of the replies are posted with Copy + paste content from SAP documentation/ other sites, some link farms etc.
What i feel is this type of replies only encourages other people to post such basic questions again and again.
So i think a little amendment need to be added to the Forum guidelines prompting members not to post replies/links to basic questions which can be easily searched.
What you people think of it? Your thoughts are welcome and i hope some moderator would be in a better position to answer this.
Regards
Karthik D

Answer 1

Hi Karthik,
Your BAPI example took a whack together with all it's answers and the other questions by the same lazy bones fresher.
There is no real answer to your question, because more usable expert forums and keeping the quality up to standard is a constant thing. Each new batch of freshers brings new challenges with them, and new types of points-gaming, etc. So it is the journey which counts
At other times some tollerance is also appropriate - for example when the person has language problems and is using a translator.
But for the lazy bones who don't even have common sense, there is no SDN medication available. No amount of waiving the rules at them helps. The only think which can be done is to delete it on sight and try to catch them as early as possible.
For this the folks who use the Abuse Reports button are the true heros of the forums, as it is impossible for moderators to be everywhere all the time.
Cheers and thank again!
Julius