There is a plethora of messages, stickies, rules, etc posted in these forums. I really do my best to read thru them before asking for help. Im sorry if I sometimes overlook a few in the process however if I read them all,,, Im sure Id still be sitting at the computer 13 hours later.lol :-)
In defense of the new people here like myself, we might not be as computer literate as we'd like, and so we ask for help when needed. What might seem obvious to you is Latin to us. It's hard to know where to post a specific question because sometimes we dont even understand enough about this whole file sharing thing to even understand what the titles of each of the forums mean. Please be a little patient with us while we are coming up to speed and dont post mean faces or snappy comments in our posts when and if we accidentaly do something wrong. A kind word or a helping hand also works wonders.
Thanks
Arie, A newbie

Dear Arie

Your case for patience seems reasonable but often newbies questions are just "I have this problem, help me". There is no background information, such as what computer do you have, the operating system you use, hard disk size, memory or anything else. It makes it extremely difficult for anyone to offer anything approaching sensible advice.

I understand that non-technical or inexperienced people have difficulty understanding or explaining what they see when their computer misbehaves.

However, to newbies everywhere, I would ask this, if someone you did not know came to you for (non-computer related) advice you would, if you are sensible, ask for some background info before giving your advice. Likewise, technical and experienced folk require some background info before dispensing advice just "Help Me" is not enough.

All newbies have to do is supply some info with their queries.




UK Bob

Thanks UK Bob for your post.
Im sure that there is a lot of stuff that a newbie could do which would make things a lot easier if they just knew to do it, however I dont want to have this post to veer off in the wrong direction, and become another outlet for people venting, voicing all the things us newbies do wrong as there are already quite a few of those out there. Honestly Limewire doesnt exactly seem like the most welcoming place when you sign up and see those posts.
To get this post back on track, I would just like to repeat the main point in my orig. post:
"Please be a little patient with us while we are coming up to speed and dont post mean faces or snappy comments in our posts when and if we accidentaly do something wrong. A kind word or a helping hand also works wonders"

If you cant help the person cause they did not put enough info in their query,, simply tell them you need more info and what to list. What does going the extra mile hurt anyways? If People can take the time to post negative comments and remarks when someone goofs, surely those very people had the time to post something helpful, and help someone out.
Pay it Forward!

Have an awesome day,
Arie- A Newbie

What I'd like to say is this: when there's a sticky with many pages, don't go through the trouble of reading the whole thing since often posted problems are more or less the same (or are solved the same way).
If you want to post about, say, a connection problem that you're having with this or that application, go to the connection problems section of that application (when there is one) and read the stickies there: when it's not a problem-solving sticky, it usually shouldn't have more that a couple posts. When it's a problem solving one, the first couple posts should also be enough.
Provided that we count the rules as a sticky (and that you have, of course, read it), the number of stickies you would have read to post in a Connection Problems section ranges from one to nine (the Limewire section being the more "stickied" place, unless I'm mistaken).
There are many cases where people (like lazy me) will just point you to a sticky or to a page full of search results, so you're gonna read that many posts anyway.

Now, please don't take this as an offensive post: I just wanted to pursue the conversation a wee bit.
Everybody has gone through the newbie stage at some point or other.

Cheers to you people.

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