As a newbie, I posted a question in general electronics. A rather simple question, I thought. After several hours, and a long bike ride, I eagerly checked the forum to see if I got any replies: none, zero, zilche, nada. I was dissapointed, to me it was an important question, not important to life in general, but important. So I edited the question a little, still nada, even when there were over 70 viewers on that forum. So I changed my tactics and went to the feedback forum and introduced myself, politely I thought, and sorta asked the question again - thinking that someone in charge could lead me in the right direction.
Next day, I received replys. Oh boy, that's great, I thought. I read the replys thinking, "good, now I can go on with my project", and what did I get in reply:
chewed out that's what. Chewed out by more than one or two experienced members. I had made the ultimate stupid mistake -
I had become a double posting noob. Oh man, I was embarrassed
, chagrined, humiliated all of that stuff. Will I ever be forgiven?
Nonetheless, I've never received an answer to my question, even after I added more information, as one poster suggested. One of the "chewer outers" suggested that I was just too impatient, it could take weeks to get an answer(weeks?), but I noticed that several others had posted questions, hours after mine, and were getting many replys. I also searched the forum for similar questions and found one that had been asked three years ago that got replys, but no information that could help me. One of the replyers to that question was one of the fellows that chewed me out, hmm
So I ask, what does a person do when he gets no help? Does he withdraw his question? How does one do that? Why couldn't the folks that chewed me out just simply have said, "you made a dumb mistake, pal, but here's where, or how, you can get the proper imformation." But not to worry, ya'll; my question was about an electronic motorcycle tacho., and I not only got an answer, but a circuit diagram to go with, from a mechanic
on a
motorcycle performance website.
Am I now in the 'poop'house?