Why do people get so arsey

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i’ll throw my two cents in,

this site is way better / more professional than others (fb) it’s a roast fest...

:stingray:

Hmmm professional, I like that description. Next time I log in to help distressed fellow hobbyists I think i'll have a wash and wear my suit. I'll kindly ask my "clients" to call me sir when I reply to their problem. Lol.
 
i’ll throw my two cents in,

this site is way better / more professional than others (fb) it’s a roast fest...

:stingray:
I don’t know why anyone would go to FB for advice.
Every time I see a post with someone asking for help. There’s 150 comments about 20 that know what they are talking about, 50 that are just noobs with a bunch of myths they believe to be true .
50 that are clueless and 30 of just straight up smart a** comments trying to be funny or something.
 
I don’t know why anyone would go to FB for advice.
Every time I see a post with someone asking for help. There’s 150 comments about 20 that know what they are talking about, 50 that are just noobs with a bunch of myths they believe to be true .
50 that are clueless and 30 of just straight up smart a** comments trying to be funny or something.
Most of the fish groups I've seen on there don't even consist of any advice.The pages are simply photo galleries with no write up on the photo subjects!
 
MFK is my sanity check, this is where I ask questions, get reasonable answers and really talk with people about hobby.

In all other places, especially fb groups, I have seen is people underestimate (by a large margin) how much there is to learn in hobby if they want to and they overestimate how much they know, it's called dunning kruger effect. This is true for a lots of hobbies. Most of us are not very smart. We are trained to do certain things in certain ways that makes us do smarter things that untrained person won't. Then there are subjective things that we blindly take as we grow and think of with different ones as idiots. I believe this build up.

One more thing is, someone telling you that you are wrong is similar to physical pain. Many don't know how to handle it, one reason is many don't get into conflicts at all. Same as above, generally we grow to accepts few things and get invested in it. For example, I spent hours trying to explain my fiend that drinking water after or while eating is not bad, he just didn't agree, there is summary of research, articles online saying so. He just completely ignores them. So we grow up to not learning to change when we are wrong as we never get opportunity to.
 
I think part of the problem is some of the older members have seen the same questions pop up over and over again. They probably get irritated but still feel obligated to reply, when the OP shoots back with a smartarse reply like "the LFS or this website says its ok" then they snap and the fireworks begin.
Most of the members here are actually very helpful and cool people with a wealth of experience they are willing to share but it doesnt take much to tip some of them over the edge. It can be amusing to see sometimes but I imagine it gives the mods some headaches......
 
A lot of unnecessary hate being thrown around can also be contributed to people not realizing that they are talking to real human beings with feelings and not just the computer screen. It is very easy to get carried away on online forums due to the fact that people are not talking face to face. It is also very hard to convey tone via online messaging which might cause some readers to believe someone's message was nasty, but in reality, the writer just want to help.
 
Hmmm professional, I like that description. Next time I log in to help distressed fellow hobbyists I think i'll have a wash and wear my suit. I'll kindly ask my "clients" to call me sir when I reply to their problem. Lol.

nice!

professional / educated - hands down better content -
 
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In the beginning, I was very arsey. Some members dispised me. I don’t know why I was arsey. I didn’t mean to be an arse, just wanted help and got mad. I have a very short temper lol. Also J Jim bean 20055 , you should look at some of my old posts. I was WAYYYY bad. Here is a list:

-ignorant
-ungrateful
-short-tempered
-lazy
-disrespectful

Atleast I am not to bad now. Got off probation Quick as wel!

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