posts going unanswered

[sindhu_sundar]

Lately I find ubuntuforums very unresponsive...ive made serveral posts but none of them have had any helpful replies (with the exception of one). where is every one?

PS: maybe this post of mine will get some angry replies, and that's the point, only posts that provoke do i guess.

[kmac]

*Not angry*

Link me your threads... I'll do what I can :)

[dcstar]

Lately I find ubuntuforums very unresponsive...ive made serveral posts but none of them have had any helpful replies (with the exception of one). where is every one?

PS: maybe this post of mine will get some angry replies, and that's the point, only posts that provoke do i guess.

No, posts that provide a reasonable amount of information in a reasonable manner will probably get help from those that can help.

I personally do not bother any more with posts from people that think the people here are somehow mind-readers. The quantity of posts that don't even provide basic information is staggering, it is a wonder that some people basically expect others to grovel and beg them to provide information to help them with a problem.

Other people essentially demand help, like the people here are responsible for the problem they are having and are somehow obligated to respond within minutes of these self-important gods posting - funny how those posts can go unanswered for hours, days or longer innit?

There are people here with a finite amount of time to help anyone with a problem, there are plenty of people who do ask for help in a respectful manner and they seem to get help from those who are able to help. As for the others, well the responses they (don't) get speak for themselves......

[kmac]

Other people essentially demand help, like the people here are responsible for the problem they are having and are somehow obligated to respond within minutes of these self-important gods posting

Very True. You have to admit though. At one time, we were all 'that guy', and if we hadn't 'demanded' help and eventually got it, we may have been turned off from this wonderful community and the associated operating system. People may lack common manners, or even sense, but remember there have been people that you pissed of years ago, and if it weren't for them, you'd still be Ctrl+Alt+Del'ing.

--Kyle

[dcstar]

Very True. You have to admit though. At one time, we were all 'that guy', and if we hadn't 'demanded' help and eventually got it, we may have been turned off from this wonderful community and the associated operating system. People may lack common manners, or even sense, but remember there have been people that you pissed of years ago, and if it weren't for them, you'd still be Ctrl+Alt+Del'ing.


Fortunately I started looking for help in a time where the Internet was a lot smaller than it is now, web forums did not yet exist and Usenet was the primary method of communicating with others.

It wasn't difficult to see how people managed to effectively ask for help and only absolute fools disregarded those methods (and either learned their lesson quickly or disappeared). Back then (early 1990's) to even be on-line required a reasonable amount of knowledge and to be contributing to a Unix forum even more.

These days things are obviously different.

[sloggerkhan]

I have to admit that most of the kinds of problems I had when I started using linux aren't arround so much anymore and the ones I still have are pretty much things that can't be solved.... need driver updates or such... know how it is... you've got some POS piece of HW that won't coorerate and there aren't fixes.

[kmac]

Good point. I guess I'm just a strong believer in trying to make the Ubuntu community something that will always be open and understanding. It's difficult sometimes, yes, due to infidels that should stick to copy and pasting myspace layout codes, but how will we ever spread this community if people are turned off right away?

No Ubuntu veteran in their right mind demands a reply, so let's encourage the newbs so someday they can be the ones putting up with future newbs.

[mobilediesel]

I personally do not bother any more with posts from people that think the people here are somehow mind-readers.

I agree with that completely.

"I was trying to install this program and it broke the other thing that does that stuff. Tell me how fix it"

Any posts starting like that result in a closed tab.

[sindhu_sundar]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7972400#post7972400 > I answered my own post eventually there, but I think that was a valid question and not in the format that would result in a closed tab.

example 2: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1136969 , I think I have described my problem pretty well, yet no reply.

example 3: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1045014

example 4: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1030137

and example 5: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1030029

[mikewhatever]

Read all of the above, but I don't know the answers, sorry. The one with files being created is wried.

[Miyavix3]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7972400#post7972400 > I answered my own post eventually there, but I think that was a valid question and not in the format that would result in a closed tab.

example 2: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1136969 , I think I have described my problem pretty well, yet no reply.

example 3: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1045014

example 4: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1030137

and example 5: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1030029


There, I replied to some of them.

[zkriesse]

Well first I must say that I try to answer every post in which I CAN HELP...if I can't help that person then I usually don't say anything for fear of doing more harm than good. Maybe you should keep that in mind. Second, send me your posts and I'll take a look.

[Vaphell]

There is also a problem with people who don't put any effort into finding the answer themselves. How many 'omg flash is not working, how do i install it?!?' do you see every day? It takes 1 minute of searching here to get tons of tutorials and fixes.
Sometimes i answer some question even though i got no idea prior to that and found the solution just at that moment with a bit of googling. Some people are just lazy and don't do their homework.
And then there are those posts which hold no substance - asking for details gets old fast.
There is of course a portion of posts that don't get answered because they touch some obscure or outright unexplainable stuff and people just have no idea where to look. I don't think simple 'I have no idea' would make the poster warm and fuzzy inside just because there is a reply in his thread :-)

[Chronon]

I looked through and don't have much to add to any of them. I mostly don't use those apps (Epiphany, Deluge, SCIM, etc.). I think the random .exes showing up on your system should be watched carefully.

I generally don't answer unless I feel I'm adding something to the discussion. Perhaps you just got unlucky with timing. It doesn't seem like you bumped those threads up much. It's acceptable to bump once a day to try to attract attention if nobody has answered you yet.

[aysiu]

I'm closing this thread.

If you want more attention to your support threads, bump them every 24 hours (and not more often).

If you bump them three times and still get no response, consider it probable that People don't know the answer to your problem You aren't asking nicely or stating your problem specifically enough