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jttheclockman

jttheclockman

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We have recently talked here about why the participation is down and things we can do to get things moving. Well here is a pet peeve of mine and I have seen it happen a couple times lately here. If you are going to ask a question in any of the forums at least follow through with it. There are times when people are trying to help you but you do not respond to their questions. Not good!!!!Then there is the common courtesy to say thanks or at least acknowledge that you read the answers and will give them a try. Not good!!!!!I know myself I stop answering when there is no response at all. I say to myself why bother??? The OP did not even bother to acknowledge the answer.

Just common courtesy. :smile:

Thanks for reading:biggrin:
 
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You have knowledge I don't. I'm entitled to you giving me the answer to my question and in a timely fashion. If you don't answer me within an hour I'll post some sarcastic remark letting everyone know how much I "appreciate" the help. If you do post right away, I'll take your answer and go on my way without acknowledging you.
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You mean this type of mentality?
 
I always try and follow through when I ask questions, and just as importantly, show some well-deserved appreciation to those have helped me with my issue.

And on the flip side, if I post a pen, concept or technique, I try to answer any questions that it may generate in a timely fashion.
 
Carl Fisher said:
You have knowledge I don't. I'm entitled to you giving me the answer to my question and in a timely fashion. If you don't answer me within an hour I'll post some sarcastic remark letting everyone know how much I "appreciate" the help. If you do post right away, I'll take your answer and go on my way without acknowledging you.
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You mean this type of mentality?
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I would hope this azz was banned from the site
 
Nobody said that specifically. I used the quote block to just isolate it so people didn't think I was actually saying that :biggrin:

I was just highlighting a common mentality in the Internet age. Everyone feels they are entitled to the information you possess and get angry when you don't share it or just move on once you do without an acknowledgment.

I'm not saying this is true of everyone, but it speaks to John's point in the original post.
 
Dang now I am trying to think if I have done that. I know I may not say "Carl" thanks for the imput, I may do a blanket thanks for the help. I don't want Roy thinking his feedback wasn't useful when i went with Carls.
 
To anyone I may have inadvertently missed in the past please accept both my heartfelt thanks and apology for the omission. I appreciate each and every comment or suggestion I receive and thanks to this post I will make an effort to acknowledge all input to my posts (unless someone calls me a blithering idiot. Then I will wonder how my wife found this site).
 
jttheclockman said:
We have recently talked here about why the participation is down and things we can do to get things moving. Well here is a pet peeve of mine and I have seen it happen a couple times lately here. If you are going to ask a question in any of the forums at least follow through with it. There are times when people are trying to help you but you do not respond to their questions. Not good!!!!Then there is the common courtesy to say thanks or at least acknowledge that you read the answers and will give them a try. Not good!!!!!I know myself I stop answering when there is no response at all. I say to myself why bother??? The OP did not even bother to acknowledge the answer.

Just common courtesy. :smile:

Thanks for reading:biggrin:
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I think some of the times, it may be someone's first post or a new person to the forum. As for more experienced user's I try to respond back and let the people know that I appreciate their responses, but I also have stopped responding when MY thread is taken by other people in a direction I had never intended (this is where someone should start a new thread instead of hijacking a thread, and not all hijacking is bad, but sometimes you just have to wonder) also sometimes, people use your thread as a soapbox for their own agenda. Like I said, I try to thank the people for their help, I may have missed some and I apologize for that, but I have been forced to abandon my own threads at times for the reasons above.
Just my 2 1/2 cents


Curt
 
I think we just forget that we asked the question. I usually bookmark forum threads where I ask a question so I remember to look at the answer.
 
Another possibility is that someone forgot to turn on the auto-subscribe, like me. It isn't on by default when you join. You could get messages and not even know it if you forgot to subscribe to the thread.
 
I find myself wanting to comment on a few of these in general.

If someone forgets they asked a question then that question was not that important to them in the first place so do not waste anyone's time. Maybe someone went out of their way to look things up for that person in order to answer properly. That is not fair. Being new has nothing to do about being courteous .

As far as thanks go just a general thanks I will try all these suggestions or gives me a lot to think about or look into. Any blank statement will do.

Curt mentioned about his threads being hijacked or taken off course. That happens all the time. That is a normal thing and sometimes it is a good thing but i can understand his point and hopefully someone else notices it and steers it back again. This happens when the bickering wars start. I hesitate many times when I include a photo of something related to the OP question that I made. I feel that I am sort of hijacking the thread and try to stay away from that.

And to Carl. Unfortunately that at times is the mentality that gets projected.

Now I am sure with the 1000's of posts I made, some where in there is a slip up of this too so I will heed my own words and try to be mindful of this. We all can do better. But for the most part we do well.

Have a great day.
 
jttheclockman said:
I find myself wanting to comment on a few of these in general.

If someone forgets they asked a question then that question was not that important to them in the first place so do not waste anyone's time. Maybe someone went out of their way to look things up for that person in order to answer properly. That is not fair. Being new has nothing to do about being courteous .

As far as thanks go just a general thanks I will try all these suggestions or gives me a lot to think about or look into. Any blank statement will do.

Curt mentioned about his threads being hijacked or taken off course. That happens all the time. That is a normal thing and sometimes it is a good thing but i can understand his point and hopefully someone else notices it and steers it back again. This happens when the bickering wars start. I hesitate many times when I include a photo of something related to the OP question that I made. I feel that I am sort of hijacking the thread and try to stay away from that.

And to Carl. Unfortunately that at times is the mentality that gets projected.

Now I am sure with the 1000's of posts I made, some where in there is a slip up of this too so I will heed my own words and try to be mindful of this. We all can do better. But for the most part we do well.

Have a great day.
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I tried to but maybe not successfully to say that, yes sometime the hijacking is a good thing and sometimes it results in some good old humor, by the way did we ever get the goat thing settled? :biggrin:

Curt
 
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