Agreed. On all of it. I too am feeling frustration about people wanting, needing, demanding even sometimes, to be helped. But my response to that kind of attitude has been a bit different. I noticed myself skimming these posts, disregarding them most of the time.
That’s what I see as “load sharing”. Let some of them go by. Someone else will carry this one. Only when I feel up to it, up to remaining patient and polite, will I answer such a post. Usually with the obvious request for more info. Explaining how it is impossible for anyone to write a sensible answer. Trying to subtly convey that the are in fact being assholes for wasting my fricking time!
That’s when I fall back in my, new, default mode: disregarding, silently delegating, sharing the burden with my homies. Not out of conviction or any kind of wisdom. It’s merely behaviour I started to notice in myself.
I don’t want to put too fine a point on it, but… this is going on too long -Dent, it’s you.
Dude, you posted a “I NEED HELP RIGHT NOW” post in the blog section, then posted in the shout-box less than 5 minutes later that no one was helping and they needed to (I checked the time-stamp!). I think I have articulated this before, but maybe I might need to be more direct…
You are on step 3 and asking about step 400. -You need to get the basics down first.
Stop laughing (joking) about these “what to do (what not to do) as a newbie” kinda posts -we are talking about guys like you
We love you and want you to succede but man, you gotta work a little here.
“People just can’t shut their mouths”? “I am tired of talking to sore losers!!”? “Why can’t somebody just return the favor?”?
And the worst… “the dark side of this site”
I haven’t been there for long, and i’m a real newbie too, but i was telling myself that one of the things i like here, is that LMR is a friendly community, in which i never saw any troll (like you can on many other forums), where people were willing to help. Well, that was before you.
