I asked a question on a forum about why a command wasn’t working. They said I didn’t have an interpreter installed on my computer and were making fun of me. I showed them that I had one installed and that wasn’t the problem, but they continued to talk sarcastically to me without explaining anything. Only one of them suggested the cause of the problem, and he was right, so I thanked him. Then another guy said that if I couldn’t figure it out myself, I should do something else and that he was tired of people like me. After that, I deleted my question, and now I’m not sure. And I don’t think I want to ask for help ever again
Did you practice due diligence of RTFM (reading the fucking manual) & researching the problem earnestly before asking a question that requests people to commit their time to answer it (ie, were you considerate), and did you show the effort you had put into answering the question yourself & what insights you gained before getting stuck? That’s usually it. No on appreciates their time wasted by poor effort.
I used to work with a programmer who would schedule meetings with IT subject matter experts of systems we were working on integrating to ask questions he could have answered by reading public documentation instead of doing the research in advance & coming prepared with meaningful questions. It was infuriating.
All of this. It should also be said that if you don’t understand something in the manual that’s ok too, but at least do a quick search to see if you can solve it. You ask when you bottom out, not to skip effort.
Sometimes you may even find that there are 2 or 3 things you could try and you want some help before investing too much more time (as long as you invested some).
Thank you, NSFW enjoyer.