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Topic	When googling help for games nowadays, why is first result usually a video?
LinkPizza 12/30/18 1:38:28 PM #20:	ParanoidObsessive posted... 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. That one is easy to deal with. Especially if you know how people are going to answer. Sometimes, you might want to say stuff like, I know you dont have to do X and stuff, but I just want to know how to do it. The reason I would say stuff like that is because they are trying to help on their own way. But explaining that you are looking for a certain answer earlier can help eliminate those post. But some people will still be willing to help. Or explain very briefly why you want to do X. Something like that... ParanoidObsessive posted... 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). That one is harder to deal with. It depends on how fast the board is moving. A way to bump it while adding something of value is to reply to different people with different replies. Whether its I tried this, or explaining to someone why you want to do it a certain way or whatever... ParanoidObsessive posted... 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. Sometimes, thats just what you have to do... And youll always have the people who want to answer another way. Just ignore it. Usually, someone will have your answer... ParanoidObsessive posted... 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. Sometimes, YouTube is the way to go. I use it for certain things a lot. Sometimes, before I even ask. Even on long walkthroughs, O can scrub to find it fast. Im not even one to mind the voice-overs... Especially if they give tips. --- Official King of Kings Switch FC: 7216-4417-4511 Add Me because I'll probably add you. I'm probably the LinkPizza you'll see around. <cite>LinkPizza posted [p:914926879] in When googl... [t:77343135]...</cite> <quote><cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>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.</quote> That one is easy to deal with. Especially if you know how people are going to answer. Sometimes, you might want to say stuff like, I know you dont have to do X and stuff, but I just want to know how to do it. The reason I would say stuff like that is because they are trying to help on their own way. But explaining that you are looking for a certain answer earlier can help eliminate those post. But some people will still be willing to help. Or explain very briefly why you want to do X. Something like that... <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>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).</quote> That one is harder to deal with. It depends on how fast the board is moving. A way to bump it while adding something of value is to reply to different people with different replies. Whether its I tried this, or explaining to someone why you want to do it a certain way or whatever... <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>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.</quote> Sometimes, thats just what you have to do... And youll always have the people who want to answer another way. Just ignore it. Usually, someone will have your answer... <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>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.</quote> Sometimes, YouTube is the way to go. I use it for certain things a lot. Sometimes, before I even ask. Even on long walkthroughs, O can scrub to find it fast. Im not even one to mind the voice-overs... Especially if they give tips. --- Official King of Kings Switch FC: 7216-4417-4511 Add Me because I'll probably add you. I'm probably the LinkPizza you'll see around.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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