How very interesting - please have a life, but also answer every illiterate persons request for support personally and with a smile. While not being paid. In that case - who cares if you have a life, come on - keep doing it. And trust me - the questions never get smarter - you are always dealing with the same kind of person not having a clue about how information sharing economies work.
Passive aggressive white knights, such as you - then often counter with "you dont have to give any assistance, if you cant do it in a pleasant tone", to which I only have to say - the caliber of people you then have answering the 50th question of a person unwilling to read anything before requesting help - tends to get so poor, that you usually have people juggling misinformation in no time. But then they like it, because they feel personally attended to. -- I on the other hand dislike it very much - its probably the main reason, I'm still engaging in answering profane stuff.
As far as I'm concerned the personal help requesters with no indication to try to read up on stuff first, are simply a nuisance in between me trying to keep informed on scene proceedings. Ok, thats a bit harsh - maybe I'd find some enjoyment in giving along information as well - if people would not treat others as replaceable helpdesk clerks in here. I certainly didnt sign up for that job.
To answer your last question - I'm actually a very considerate person in real life. Killing with politeness and playing with social norms, because - hey I'm intelligent, dont hate me for it.
But then, I also dont have people bothering me three/four times with "hey could you fix something for me" every time I pick up a newspaper to read.
After a while - lets say the 10.000th time (because this is not the first forum I'm engaged in) this gets really old.
Why every forum like this pampers driveby "can you give personal support" lurkers these days I dont even remotely understand (what value is your typical smartphone user trying to get his PC problem fixed able to give back on average) - why keeping friendly after your 10.000th free support session is a "good" thing is beyond me as well.
Also - its not me having a bad, day - its really just me hating the structure - and the disconnect that comes from people complaining if they have to read long texts these days - being unable to extract information from answers that arent directed specifically to them (the 2000th "tell me if I am missing something" in the subforum next to this one isnt a clue?), and in general being about as far removed of knowing how technology works as possible - yet still wanting to participate in a homebrew scene for the "free".
And please - they all could - I'm not necessarily a misanthrope, but personal support doesnt scale. You need intelligent people to throw after dumb ones, or low effort opportunity SX OS pirates. Who have paid 40 USD for a scam, and now feel entitled to get support in this forum - god knows why. (I'm molding the argument, those are not the most fitting points, but it carries the sentiment.)
(If you speak german: Its this mindset: h**ps://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wU1Dr5Vj_w )
I know that it sounds implausible - but in terms of rtfm questions I've probably asked two questions, over the entire switches lifetime in here. And answered at least 500 - thats economical. But then there are 1000 people maybe asking 2 questions, and being unwilling to answer anything. And then intent somehow is preventing them from asking 10 questions, because then self organization breaks. (Ask the mods.)
Please try not to take it personal if I've lashed out at you, but if you could keep your requests to concise informed questions only - it would help us out immensely.
I know - instead of writing this, I should have probably done "life" stuff, but then this sentiment wouldnt have been made.
Also - in case you dont know - getting dopamine hitting "likes" in return, doesnt work as a meaningful reward. At one point, you notice the hamster wheel you are are working in. And yes - dealing with people who dont show base level knowledge, and have not committed any effort to getting to know the technicalities they are working with - is work.
So get a life - to get away from unpaid work. Actually - how very considerate of you. Just why has reading a paper always become "work" in this new interwebs age? Always turns out that way - right? Support communities. Even Nintendo sets them up these days.
