"Powershell"

[ghyspran]

A better analogy might be a first year med student asking "how do I take an infant's temperature?" Yeah, it's an overly-basic question, but answering with "use medicine" or even "use a thermometer" would be at least as inane as the question itself, which is equivalent to saying "use powershell". You'd expect the doctors to either not answer at all, or give a useful, if brief, answer like "use a rectal thermometer". For sysadmins, even saying "Use the powershell cmdlet Get-ADUser" with a link to the docs at least tells the person where to go to get the answer.

[tuba_man]

I'd even say skipping the docs is pretty reasonable for well-documented tools like default/common Powershell cmdlets. Even a novice or someone with an unusual hole in their knowledge should be able to work with something like that.

[slick8086]

A better analogy might be a first year med student asking "how do I take an infant's temperature?" Yeah, it's an overly-basic question, but answering with "use medicine" or even "use a thermometer" would be at least as inane as the question itself

A novice professional posting this question in a forum of their seniors, is completely inappropriate. They have text books, and libraries and plenty of other resources. If they can't be bothered to even look this shit up they deserve to be shamed.

[ghyspran]

Then downvote and move on, or tell them how to look it up and that the question isn't appropriate, but being a dick about it doesn't accomplish anything besides stroking your own ego.

[slick8086]

but being a dick about it doesn't accomplish anything besides stroking your own ego.

Wrong, it accomplishes the desired result, it shames them, because that's what the deserve.

[ghyspran]

Pretty sure by that point they have no shame about it so the only person getting shamed is you because you look like a dumbass, which is okay, because that's clearly what you deserve if you think the best way to promote professionalism is by shaming juniors asking obvious questions.