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What is queue draining?

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What is queue draining?

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1) It’s when somebody answers every askme they got (and they made sure they got plenty) with “Zot!”, “Yes no hell!”, or similar shows of advanced amentia. See point 5.1 for emphasis. 2) It’s when somebody does lots of askmes without giving any tellmes back. If you do askmes until you get a question you like, you’ve drained the queue. True, all the ones you didn’t answer go back to the queue after 24 hours, but meanwhile, the rest of us have less to play with. True dimwits do either until they get the “no questions” back. This is very much frowned upon. If you’re in the habit of doing this, be sure to give us your address, open your front door, and stand quivering in your tub. We’ll be along shortly. (And then, of course, there’s the sad individual who, after several lobotomies, thought that queue draining consisted of sending in tellme’s …

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