Meantime I saw
balanga starting citing manpages. This is at least some progress. Hopefully he keeps that up.
Some requests to the forum were ridiculous. Trying to outsource to forum members even searching his own postings that he can't find anymore was just one of those messages that was one too much. I felt it was time for an intervention. And yes, I do ask myself if it is worth the time spending before starting to write.
As long as not so good behavior gets rewarded by solving/helping with problems, there is no motivation that a person feels a need for a change.
There is energy needed for writing posts. That could be better spent on doing one's own work before starting bothering other people. And please remember, here we talk about flooding the forum with low level requests.
Fortunately I experienced some time ago that I found solutions near time
after clicking the send button. That was a really good feeling having solved my problems without the help of others. I started analyzing hindsight what caused the progress. It was the style of writing questions.
I tried to be helpful to others when asking for help, making it more easy to respond to my postings. There are numerous FAQs in the Internet about how to do that.
And by collecting information and sorting them out I got nearer to the solution. So what I tried to do was, and still is, working on a good posting.
Doing so solutions came to my mind shortly after having sent, and I recognized that I just have to wait a little before sending the message so that I have the chance for finally solving problems on my own. That worked an gave me a really superb feeling.
I kept this kind of working style and started writing a personal wiki so that I can lookup things afterwards.
I suspect that high frequency posters are somehow addict to communicating with others. So they are likely not only rewarded with solutions here in the forums, but also with communication they might lack in their real life. There is nothing wrong about that, as long as people do not start getting on one's nerves.
And a last word on reading manpages and other text. It is just normal that one do not understand a text just at once reading for the first time a complex text. It takes several readings for starting the process of understanding. It takes time and rehearsals and even pausing. That is how to use one's own brain. And it is the most satisfying experience solving problems independent as far as possible.
With presenting
every little help to your friends you protect them from becoming successful. You make them depend on you, and you can add to be admired by others.
