Let’s create a standard, courteous (yes, I said and truly mean _courteous_) response that can be cut and pasted into a post. We’ll designate a few people as the “Password Recovery” responders who will paste that canned response into a message. We will agree that only the designated responders will post in that thread and only with the agreed upon response.
I don’t see how multiple responses that essentially say the same thing are useful. They don’t seem to dissuade folks from posting password recovery questions and they waste time for those who feel compelled to respond to them (and those of us who have a morbid fascination to see how the latest password recovery attempt was flamed 😉 )
Here’s a roadmap for this plan:
1. Agree to have a canned response to password recovery questions.
[if the previous suggestion is agreed upon, then proceed to the following:]
2. Propose and ratify the text for an informative, simple, and courteous response to password recovery questions (which would, for the sake of everyone not in the know, include a header saying that this is a canned response and a final sentence asking that no one else respond to the thread.)
3. Designate one, two, or three established members as responders.
I propose a motion to make a canned response. Do I hear a second?