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Why is that some section of this forum people do not reply unless it is something simple like a mysql query, putting in form objects and things of that matter but yet when there is a legit question there are no responses? Like how would i go about setting up this that and the other... not that all the people are asking for code help but asking for direction. Millions of viewings just no posts....
Maybe i'm impatient, however, i have seen some that posted months ago asking for direction and no one helped.....
TheBearMay
07-08-2009, 09:57 AM
Much of the time I think you'll find that it comes down to one or more of:
The question posed is too vague.
The question posed is so encompassing that to answer it takes longer than most people have to spend.
The question as posed has no real response.
The question has been answered so many times that everyone is tired of instructing the user to do a search.
The question looks like someone's homework or an attempt to hack a site.
The person posing the question has been rude and obnoxious.
It simply got lost in the 100s of posts that day.
You have to realize most of the answers on here come from people who are out here on their "free" time, so your best bet is to break your question into small chunks and phrase it in such a way as to grab their interest.
JPnyc
07-08-2009, 10:47 AM
that's just the nature of forums. People answer what they feel like answering. Sometimes they may not know the answer, sometimes the post just gets lost in the shuffle. There's no way we could even guess every single persons reason.
Shorts
07-08-2009, 10:50 AM
Would definitely have to agree with TheBearMay. Good answer.
Personally love to help when I can but realistically usually just on this site while at work to help clear my mind from my own programming tasks... Sorry, but in my spare time after working for ~10 hours a day other people's programming problems aren't extremely high on my priority list.
that is exactly what i do shorts.. when i get irritated cause my own stuff dont work i come here... then i feel better.. and find out my own problems. That is why most of the time i like to post my own problem fixes for other people's later usage.
I did notice that this forum has a lot of post made by people that don't know what they are doing in the first place... yet instead of going and trying it you do get a lot of mundane questions that usually is fixed by changing around and/or adding '";`?(){} which i know is a common mistake but look over and check for these things first is my moto...