OTOH: it explains very clearly the rationale behind the advice and the reactions one gets. The notes are harsher than needed here - LQ users are actually more tolerant than the old-time MIT hackers. Which is a bit of a relief.
But if you want to attract good advice from a hacker, you should write your posts for that reader. Even those who do not count themselves in that mindset will find something useful to say as a result - so it's a no-lose situation.
If you write simple-minded posts, you cannot complain if you get simple-minded replies and attract simple-minded people.
If someone replies to your questions as if you were more knowledgeable than you are - you can always ask questions. Then you learn something. The community as a whole benefits this way. If someone replies as if you were less knowledgeable than you feel you have presented yourself - that is frustrating and somewhat insulting. Everybody loses.
Getting it just right is hard - and there is little net gain. If we err in aiming over your head, then, in missing the apple, at least we also missed your head (and we get to try again.)
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BTW: T3Slider - you are doing fine. You have 464 posts so far and started only one thread - which says you are willing to help others.
The thread you posted said all the right things: you detailed the issue and told us what you had noticed and what you tried to do. You asked for help solving the problem for yourself instead of asking for an outright fix "step by step". Notice you got respectful, helpful, informative and intelligent replies.
