LogFAQs > #914925344

LinkPizza posted...

Maybe youre asking wrong. Whenever I ask a question on here or Reddit, I get direct answers.

Yeah, sure, blame the victim!

But honestly, it's hard to use that logic when you ask something basically akin to "How do you do X?", and the next thirty posts are "You shouldn't do X", "X is stupid", "Y is way better", "Personally I prefer Z", "Why would anyone want to do X?", "No one should ever care about X", "Not doing X is totally fine, don't worry about X", or any number of similar non-answers that basically just involve people shitting their opinions into the topic in the most unhelpful way possible.

Which then becomes doubly annoying if you're on a faster moving board or subreddit where you have to keep your topic bumped for people to see it, and where the multitude of other bad answers may discourage people from bothering to come in and answer it themselves (on Reddit, at least, topics definitely have a half-life).

I got to the point where I'd basically preface questions with "I'm not asking for opinions about why I shouldn't do this, or what alternatives there are, I just want to know how to do THIS", and you'd still get a dozen people not answering the actual question.

Then I'd go on YouTube and type in "How do you do X" and get a dozen videos people made showing you exactly how to do X. Half of which didn't even have the annoying voice-overs people are complaining about, and half of which you could easily mute anyway. Or I'd type in the name of the game and +"wiki" into a search engine, find the wiki for the game, and look up whatever it was I needed in about 30 seconds.


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