Kersten
Very Well-Known Member
I don't necessarily think the problem lies with newbies asking repetitive questions - as it has already been pointed out it's not hard to just skip past the threads you aren't interested in. If there was a problem I'd say it's in the way people who really do have experience (which obviously can't be guaranteed by length of membership, spelling and grammar or number of posts) are ignored, argued with and even abused by people who either don't have a clue or have some personal agenda.
In the past I've been reduced to hysterical gales of laughter when watching people who I know have decades of experience being told they've no idea what they're talking about based on the fact that they'd made a spelling error, didn't use capital letters or hadn't posted much. Not because I thought that the person shooting them down was right, but because I found it hilarious that from behind their computer screen, armed with the bare minimum of knowledge they had thought they had the right to be completely dismissive of a total stranger. I stopped laughing the day I realised that everytime I found a posts by people I knew had a wealth of experience behind them there would inevitably follow one....or two....or scores of posts full of flawed logic, inane dribble or downright vicious vitriol all aimed at trying to shoot down a piece of solid advice.
Let the 12 year old kids out there ask all the questions they want, the sad thing isn't that they're asking the same thing in 50 different ways - it's that there's no way of guaranteeing that they'll be given (or listen to) decent advice.
In the past I've been reduced to hysterical gales of laughter when watching people who I know have decades of experience being told they've no idea what they're talking about based on the fact that they'd made a spelling error, didn't use capital letters or hadn't posted much. Not because I thought that the person shooting them down was right, but because I found it hilarious that from behind their computer screen, armed with the bare minimum of knowledge they had thought they had the right to be completely dismissive of a total stranger. I stopped laughing the day I realised that everytime I found a posts by people I knew had a wealth of experience behind them there would inevitably follow one....or two....or scores of posts full of flawed logic, inane dribble or downright vicious vitriol all aimed at trying to shoot down a piece of solid advice.
Let the 12 year old kids out there ask all the questions they want, the sad thing isn't that they're asking the same thing in 50 different ways - it's that there's no way of guaranteeing that they'll be given (or listen to) decent advice.