I get that, so I try not to hold it against them, but damn, they can be asses sometimes. It does, however, make it feel disingenuous when someone tries to tell me that the community is happy to educate. It just does not mesh with my experience at all.
There are definitely users here that are happy to educate, and have libraries of links ready to post whenever questions come up. Not everyone has the patience for it and the sarcasm will leak through.
It doesn’t help that we’re on a text forum, where miscommunication is guaranteed because there’s no tone of voice or facial expression or body language and some of us are using translation software to communicate. I find this is a terrible medium for communication across ideological gaps, it’s too easy for misunderstanding to turn into a fight.
I get that, so I try not to hold it against them, but damn, they can be asses sometimes. It does, however, make it feel disingenuous when someone tries to tell me that the community is happy to educate. It just does not mesh with my experience at all.
There are definitely users here that are happy to educate, and have libraries of links ready to post whenever questions come up. Not everyone has the patience for it and the sarcasm will leak through.
It doesn’t help that we’re on a text forum, where miscommunication is guaranteed because there’s no tone of voice or facial expression or body language and some of us are using translation software to communicate. I find this is a terrible medium for communication across ideological gaps, it’s too easy for misunderstanding to turn into a fight.