This post is not meant to harass or offend anybody - but rather a question on how to be polite and respectful and still get a message through.
Over the last 6 month I have the feeling that I see a growing number of questions related in particular to helping beginners designing and building diy audio getting stuck at the questioner rejecting proper help.
I will not refer to specific threads, but the one that prompted me into this post, resulted in a knowlegdeable forum member being very precise and blunt in explaining the questioner that a lot of people had offered valid help, but the help was rejected because the questioner did not accept that the original design would not work.
I think that particular reply was very clear and I have previously been tempted to post similar replies to some of the threads, I've been involved in.
"Tempted" - because after consideration I did not write the reply as I feared that I would start a storm and some would have felt harrassed.
So maybe I am asking about others views on this - or I am just venting some steam😉
Cheers,
Martin
Over the last 6 month I have the feeling that I see a growing number of questions related in particular to helping beginners designing and building diy audio getting stuck at the questioner rejecting proper help.
I will not refer to specific threads, but the one that prompted me into this post, resulted in a knowlegdeable forum member being very precise and blunt in explaining the questioner that a lot of people had offered valid help, but the help was rejected because the questioner did not accept that the original design would not work.
I think that particular reply was very clear and I have previously been tempted to post similar replies to some of the threads, I've been involved in.
"Tempted" - because after consideration I did not write the reply as I feared that I would start a storm and some would have felt harrassed.
So maybe I am asking about others views on this - or I am just venting some steam😉
Cheers,
Martin
Some posters don't really want an answer to their question, just confirmation that their plan is valid.
When that confirmation is not forthcoming, they become even more entrenched in their idea.
It's a human nature kind of thing and something that we just have to accept I feel.
When that confirmation is not forthcoming, they become even more entrenched in their idea.
It's a human nature kind of thing and something that we just have to accept I feel.
Explaining explicitly what your intentions are, like you did at the start of this thread, might help. Then again, I am autistic, so I'm probably not the best person to answer your question.
try to help people in some threads that interest me. If they are not receptive, oh well, I could scold them but it likely wouldn't help, so I just pass by and go t the next thread.
Some people are incapable of accepting the help offered as it doesn't fit with what they already believe.
Others are just Trolls that will do anything to start a fight and then prolong it.
I rarely try to help people anymore because of these two.
If I do offer help, I only do it once.
What they do with the information after that is their problem.
Others are just Trolls that will do anything to start a fight and then prolong it.
I rarely try to help people anymore because of these two.
If I do offer help, I only do it once.
What they do with the information after that is their problem.