??? 12/15/09 19:39 Read: times |
#171634 - Clarifying things should always be seen as good Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Kai Klaas said:
Per said:
But it is true. People posting on the net are anonymous. We do not know who they are. Raghunathan is an old member of this forum, a highest-level professional in his business and a very good friend! We know him for years and there's no reason to treat him like a newbie, only because someone was shocked by his own incompetence. If I wouldn't know what a bi-polar or non-polarised LED is, I would keep quiet, would try to learn and, most of all, would avoid winding up other people... Kai Klaas But what you know about Raghunathan is what you have accumulated through the forum. And what you know about the latest project is what have posted in the thread. So my statement about giving enough information in the posts is true, but does not have anything to do with if we like or dislike someone, or if we think they are highly capable or not. It is not a hostile statement. It is just a reminder that all people on the net are at different levels, and that it is important to try to present enough information that the reader (who may be a long-time forum visitor but may be someone with high skills but visits this forum for the first time) have a chance to understand. Some people pick up on anti-parallell diodes because they have worked with them before. Some guesses. Some lacks both language and electronics skills to understand the meaning. Some are pretty sure they know what was meant, but realizes that own skills, experience or guesses doesn't help if the person who wrote the text did it based on other skills, experiences or assumptions. I don't know why it is so common on web forums to assume that questions or suggestions to rephrase something should be seen as hostile. Look forward. If a statement can be rephrased in a non-ambiguous way, then more people will be able to read the text and make the correct assumption. People who haven't been attacked don't need other people to defend them. That just starts - or speeds up - the spiral that we so often gets into. |