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| Jul 1, 2011 at 22:56 | comment | added | eggplant_casserole | Also, I appreciate short answers can sound blunt, but there's a difference between that and not expanding on an answer helpfully. I have great respect for non-native English speakers giving technical help, too! Anyway, when I help with hardware issues on similar sites and the user is clearly not computer savvy, I give a nice step-by-step that they'll understand. I was once told on here to "create a computed field" to solve my problem. For a newbie, that suggestion was not helpful, as I couldn't find the values I needed. So I think my comment was relevant - be detailed for newbies! | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 22:48 | comment | added | eggplant_casserole | Well, I appreciate all that. I've actually commented on the short reply issue before - too short IMHO. I don't see why a question couldn't have another question. If "how do I achieve x?" is answered with "use y" and the OP can't work out how to use y, why should they have to start a new thread to ask this? As you said, the original answer can be edited and expanded, and a comment left to explain that was done. Then the OP would simply vote for the 1st answer, not the comment ;) | |
| Jun 28, 2011 at 12:38 | comment | added | Berdir | And last but not least, remember that a) many users here do not speak english well (How well do you speak arabic/asian/... languages.. ?) and that comments have a length limit, which requires you to write short, blunt sentences. Do not confuse that with being unfriendly. After all, everyone here who provides answers does so because he wants to and likes to help others in their free time. | |
| Jun 28, 2011 at 12:32 | comment | added | Berdir | The basic idea of this site, beside actually answering questions of course, is that we can build up a large database of good questions and even better answers, which can easily be found through search engines. And as opposed to a forum, if someone has the same question as you did, a few months later, the correct answer is right there, upvoted/accepted. And by then, in your example, that bug will hopefully be fixed, which should make it clear that the given answer is the correct answer to your question, that there is a bug in that module right now doesn't change that. | |
| Jun 28, 2011 at 12:23 | comment | added | Berdir | You can of course ask here how to apply a patch on windows. But, and that is the difference between this site and a forum, you should do that as a new question. Here, every post should be a single question or the accepting/voting thing won't work anymore as it is not clear what is a good answer to which question. Comments should only be used either by adding additional information that is not directly an answer to your question, asking for clarification if something is not clear to you and so on. | |
| Jun 28, 2011 at 9:44 | comment | added | eggplant_casserole | Also, I was trying to point out that the response about the alpha bug pointed me to a patch that fixes it. However, I do not know how to patch and don't really want to ask on the drupal.org site as they seem to shoot down newcomers. Was it not reasonable to ask here how to patch? | |
| Jun 28, 2011 at 9:41 | comment | added | eggplant_casserole | My comments are suggestions as an answer to your question. Thanks for answering my question, though (although it was more rhetorical, I appreciate the answer). My point was that the site is rather unclear about what it does, & the users are unfriendly to newcomers. It was a comment to help you understand why a newcomer is put off, not a rant. Now I only feel more unwelcome. Again, ranking is very unclear. I dont see why an unhelpful answer can't be downranked, but thanks for your explanation. | |
| Jun 28, 2011 at 6:51 | comment | added | Berdir | This question is not the correct place for your rant about how unfriendly everything and everyone is. Alpha versions can break your site, that's why they are alpha's. Bug reports do not belong here, nobody can answer them away, they need to be fixed and the place to deal with bugs is the issue queue (not forum!). Downvoting is for wrong answers, not when you feel unhappy about them. That answer is correct but that feature is simply alpha state and if it does not yet work for your site, that's a bummer but there is nothing we can do here on this site to change that. | |
| Jun 28, 2011 at 1:52 | history | edited | eggplant_casserole | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 28, 2011 at 1:27 | history | answered | eggplant_casserole | CC BY-SA 3.0 |