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| DaveH:
--- Quote from: Brass_Machine on July 09, 2013, 04:24:17 PM --- We are missing the cues from body language etc. Eric --- End quote --- Come on Eric show us your body language - a short video would be great :poke: :ddb: :D :beer: DaveH |
| DaveH:
At the end of the day, surely it is up to the person who requested the advice (help) to decide which advice to take. :beer: DaveH |
| awemawson:
Trouble is, people reply to what their perception of the question is. That often is not the question that the original poster had in mind ! |
| joegib:
--- Quote from: John Rudd on July 09, 2013, 01:53:52 PM ---How many times have you joined in, a thread to offer advice only to be completely ignored and the next poster to offer the same advice only worded differently? --- End quote --- This can happen quite accidentally. 1. OP 'A' posts a query. 2. Member 'B' starts composing a reply in the reply frame but takes his time about it. 3. Member 'C', quicker off the mark, posts the answer to the OP's question and the thread is updated on the forum. 4. Member 'B' finally completes his answer and posts it (bear in mind, all he can see is the cached page visible when he started composing the reply). 5. Member 'B' is mortified to find when he sees the updated thread that he's given the same answer as 'C'! OK, politeness dictates that 'B' should post an edit acknowledging that 'C' beat him to the punch. But there's nothing sinister about this, just the way the system works sometimes. What knurls my guts is seeing some new guy who posts a query 'out of the blue', gets a lot of comprehensive replies that people have obviously taken trouble to compose, but doesn't acknowledge them and is never heard from again! Joe |
| Arbalist:
It's happened loads of times to me. Some posters only seem to trust an answer from one of their forum "friends". Bit frustrating but nothing to be done, just ignore them. :med: |
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