Yes, No, Maybe.
Part of the issue Miss Vic hit on, if you post, why not be thourough. If everyone that posted were required to answer that way all the time, there might be 6 members here not 9000+- IMHO anyway.
How about when you see, "hey I put a question up and NOBODY has answered me"
I see this often, and it is usually a question thats been answered a million times, yes I know that person only asked once, so why didn't I take the time to be nicer to them? At what point is enough info, at what point is tooo much info, this often is easy based on the words in the question, you just get to know who put in any effort for themselves, or do they just want someone else to do it for them.
Now Victrinia, I am not picking on or arguing with you, but at some point the questioner has to bear some responsability for the answers
, and you know that in a lot of cases we can tell the experiance or total lack of in just a few words. The internet has brought us to the need for instant answers, but our hobby is full of the requirement for patience, and these are diametrically opposed things. Not sure if it possible but could it be set up so a newbie to the site has to do some pre reading, or at least a primmer on what is available on the site, so they are at least familiar with how to garner oft given opines, before they irratate the masses with questions that have been answered over and over. Would it be more appropriate to just have no one give them an answer, I think no so sometimes I will give a Hey look it up it's there in writting alreadry, answered thouroughly, and for several types of trees.
Mark hit it good too, when you get asked, give a great answer, then get hit with, yea but I want to do this anyway, how do think i should do it ? If I answered that question, gar - un - teeeeeed I will be blamed for the outcome with bad results, even if I posture my answer like a lawyer.
Sometimes too you just have a bad day, poor excuse, but we have all been on that side of the grey area.
I am a proponant of try it and see what happens, but with some prior knowledge, even if just a mimimum so I know if the process is at least failing miserably.
Ah! Professional stunt man don't try this at home.
A professional has paid over and over again to learn his lessons ( unless very talented, brilliant, or very lucky, or combinations), Walter is proud of his work with very good reason, and I would be willing to bet he has had some failures, he works with us often, and free, sometimes I would expect that he would have earned the right to tell us that we should leave it to someone that has had success, with out the need to defend his choice. Again I think he is proud of his work, I think that when Americans, and Europeans converse there is something lacking in the translations ( partly due to day to day conditions where we live, and the typical sociological differances of different nationalities), and I do not think he is an Eliteist for having his earned opinions.
I rail in behind rockm on this one, partly due to being reamed through pm for telling someone I didn't have time to critique a whole catalog of trees, (he wanted to buy 1 or 2 and was obviously a newb), and I had answered his "actual question" first, so if you ask for the moon, expect a "MOON" (_*_)
. The thing that peeved me the most was the chewing out came from someone who doesn't bother to post.
All I would ask is use common sense, most of us ask questions that have essentially been done to death, but we a least try to put things in order first, look at it from experiance, question in a specific vein. -
I got a bonsai, how should I train it, isn't a viable question. Deserves - Read, Read, Read, then ask again.
I got a bonsai and it's brown, what should I do deserves a - hehehe, me too, hope you don't do it again, heres what you did wrong. Good Luck.
You can't teach bonsai in one thread, let alone all of them, why would you try. That said well done articles and threads have a huge impact on us and provide a wealth of info, but you got to walk before you can run, and thats what doesn't seem to get taken into consideration, by the bashees. So please read "some" info first, or at least start the question with " I realize that this has been answered before but I don;t feel like doing any research, so would one of you type me up a paper on how to bonsai my $ 349.95 bonsai so it won't dye."( yes I know it's die)
People are people, and will always be people, this should not even try to be explained, at least not here, maybe our psychology sister site.
Some of the answer came yesterday on the Today show, did you all see it, the name of the Newest generation. is -
Me generation, self centered, and not very open minded.
One thing we could all do when working here is to respond to the question the best we can, and don't try to read into the response what someone felt, it's free info everybody, lets not let it make us crazy, use it if you trust the source. Mark, John, Brent, Walter, Tom, Collin, Jerry, Al, Behr, Vons, Ron, et.al, thank you for being you, keep telling it like it is.
Bill