Recently today I was asking for a bit of help for Unity3D in the IRC chat. I was being very thorough with my explanations and tried to be as co-operative as possible. After a day had passed by I came back and asked again. The same guy who was trying to help me yesterday helped me again today. Being that I am new to Unity, he had no patience with me whatsoever. So, he sent me his codes for his working script.
I read through it. He told me that I needed to wrap my Event statement with another Event statement to make sure its not called to many times. So, I did just that. I looked in his script and saw nothing like that. But, I kept it as it is. My code still didn't work.
I told him what was happening and it seemed like as soon as he figured out why it wasn't working, he asked me, "Is it before or after the text field?" I said it's after. He said "It should be before because the textfield would eat it up." Then and there, I would have known how to fix it. However, I did not expect that whether or not it's before or after a textfield that it would have an effect on it. I've never used the GUI to that extent. He knew because he had experience. However, at that moment, he pretty much bashed me saying that if I took the time to read through it.. It's 4:00 AM. I read it. Nothing is going to really get through my head from reading. Even though I did try to read it. I understood what he pointed out was important, as quoted, "the interesting line to you is line 195." I looked at it. It's what I had. However, that had nothing to do with the fix.
The point I'm trying to get across here is,
do you ever get ticked off easily when assisting someone new? Even though you're not obligated to assist even.
Do you get ticked off when people try to help you in a poor manner?
What's your worst experience? Because this was my worst.
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 Dec 18 2013, 11:11 pm
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I think I'm usually pretty patient with beginners. I still clearly remember what it was like to be new to programming -- I struggled quite a bit to get a handle on basic concepts like syntax. With that in mind, I'm understanding towards they're plight. On the other hand, I have little patience for people that don't want to even try to figure out a problem on their own. If they just want me to give them code, I'll actually just give them a very vaguely-explained idea of what they should do and tell them to try by themselves for awhile.
I get ticked off when people look down on me when asking for help. This is something I felt like happened often in my early days around here. Now, my manner of seeking for help back then was considerably noobish, so there was understandably some impatience from more skilled helpers. I can't really say what my worst experience is. Nothing sticks out in my mind. | |
Xirre wrote:
do you ever get ticked off easily when assisting someone new? My worst experience was actually just the other week. While helping someone, I became aware he wasn't actually reading my posts and was expecting me to hand out code. I actually found myself getting incredibly frustrated that I'd spent the better part of three hours of my time typing out clear, concise directions, only to have them asking questions that were clearly, and repeatedly answered by my numerous posts. He later admitted to me via PM that he doesn't read things that confuse him. (How can you not understand something that you don't read without first choosing to not read before seeing if you don't understand?!) I had asked multiple times for him to ask questions if I said something that he didn't understand so I could clarify. This is the only type of user I ever get angry with: Those who don't understand and won't do anything to help themselves to understand. | |
I get annoyed when I accidentally leave the pager open, and someone whose played a game I made thinks that means they can ask me for help. Then I tell them I'm not that good, I'm not here to help them make their game and they should ask the BYOND forums. Then they ignore me and for the next hour they keep asking me basic questions and telling me their code doesn't work before I finally just close the pager and never open it again on purpose.
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I think there's a threshold of how much they should know before it becomes annoying.
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I try to be patient or else stop replying altogether.
But when there are other people who try to help by being very obviously incorrect or counterproductive, and refuse to be corrected, accusing me of attacking them personally, that's the worst thing I've seen around here. | |
Not really "ticked off", but I do get irritated when I have to explain the basics and they still don't comprehend. Some people are an exception, of course, but that's because those few ask questions I can actually answer that wouldn't force me to repeat myself or link them to the DM Guide.
By offering to take on a few tasks then waiting a week or two to inform me that they haven't done anything and don't intent to? Yes. That's why I don't accept help anymore.
All of my experiences are pretty much the same -- look at my previous comment. It's pretty much that for both artists and programmers alike, although there have been a few exceptions.