Timeline for Frustration when the OP doesn't "get it"
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| Apr 12, 2014 at 18:55 | comment | added | Andrew B | ...Case in point: serverfault.com/questions/588623/… | |
| Apr 9, 2014 at 18:24 | comment | added | Andrew B | Adding to what @Ward said, sometimes the best thing you can do is help someone recognize that they're out of their depth. This will often lead into the same responses we get out of challenging the professional applicability of a question: indignation, "I don't care the business demands it", and the occasional person that it clicks with. You put in the effort for the third, but the effort stops the moment you hit the first two. | |
| Apr 9, 2014 at 11:16 | comment | added | Evan Anderson | @ewwhite - I definitely feel like it's happening on the site w/ greater frequency. (I'm also totally w/ you on the 'I thought I was helping people' comment.) | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 22:20 | comment | added | ewwhite | @ward is this happening with greater frequency? Maybe that's what's throwing me off. | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 21:43 | comment | added | Ward - Trying Codidact Mod | I mean, haven't you ever dealt with a help vampire in real life? If it's your job to help someone then you can try and there are ways to be nice about it, but even IRL you sometimes walk away. Like I said, it's admirable to try to help people (I'm not at all like that, I assume the worst right off the top), but you have to know that some people can't be helped - someone has to be on the left-hand side of the bell curve. | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 21:40 | comment | added | Ward - Trying Codidact Mod | You can't have it both ways... it's admirable to help people, but if unstinting in your help you'll sometimes get burned: some people will take advantage of your helpfulness, some will make you waste your efforts because they just don't know that they're totally out of their depth and doing everything wrong. You've gotten 3 essentially identical answers: run away, walk away, stop doing it. | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 21:17 | comment | added | ewwhite | I thought I was helping people :( | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 19:24 | comment | added | Chris S Mod |
+1 Glowing Internet Sparkle Points
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| Apr 8, 2014 at 18:47 | history | answered | Ward - Trying CodidactMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |