How to Spot a Help Vampire

Let's face it. We've all experienced the experience that is "help vampires" at least once in our lives. These individuals flock to flourishing communities and suck the life out of those who are willing to give up their free time to help others. For a further (and quite superb) explanation, visit Amy Hoy's: "Help Vampires: A Spotters Guide".

Generally if a person fufils three of these points they may be a help vampire.
  1. They will greet the channel on a single line.
  2. They will put a question mark on another line from their question, sometimes prefixed with your name.
    1. Occasionally they will use extraneous question marks or exclamation marks.
  3. Sometimes they will write your name on a single line, and only your name.
  4. They will use a pastebin system that is not Pastie or Gist
  5. They will PM you without asking.
  6. They will almost always use shorthand.
  7. Adopts one channel/person as their personal tutor (thanks to Mike for this)
  8. They will not try answering their own questions by experimenting in the console (thanks to rsl for this).
  9. They will most likely not be a native speaker of the English language.
  10. Their questions will be vague or subjective.
    1. Sometimes by using fake names for models and so on.
  11. They will ask "any ideas?", sometimes on a single line.
  12. They ask the same question over and over and OVER, on the theory that none of the 400 people in the channel heard them the first time.
  13. They will have Ruby, Rails or ror in their name (thanks to rsl for this)
  14. They will, as an introduction, type a wall of text (3 lines or more) (thanks to pythonic for this)