Ethics Rules for Answering Others

Did you just start college?

How long have you been using the internet?

Just about every forum on the planet has some degree of hostility on it. If you fail to understand that you will get a better picture after one or two psychology courses.

All sarcasm aside, most of the hostility spurs from anonymous posters that wear hoods like some internet terrorist to hide their identity, pour flammable liquid in their wake, and carelessly toss a lit match on their way out just to warm their twisted psyche.

Or... someone comes on here to try to get someone to do their homework problem for them. Those are the worst.

what are you whining about? I just read your threads, you've had quality responses from a few of the better members. if you're looking for a friend, buy a dog

Yea, I got some valuable answers in this forum during my short period of subscribing and i am ready to share info when the question is touching my field. But I meant those very few members (probably two or three) who offend others... That really hurts...

Well ever since they switched over to pay toilets here..... well you know,

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In a technical world, bad or excessively naïve ideas are more offensive than abrupt manners.

Tornado, I agree with you but first it is not easy to judge bad ideas through very simple questions. Even if ideas are judged to be bad, they shall not be faced by offending their persons.

Yes,Model67. It became so clear to me, and I became on the same page with you now. Apologies for my first misunderstanding.

"That really hurts..."

And you are going to be an engineer?

Ha! Just wait for your first real design review.

When people who are, by the very nature of their question, demonstrably incompetent to perform a dangerous (deadly) operation such as joining a 140 KVA existing supply with a 250 KVA supply, I would NEVER give them advice.

Neither should you. Lives depend on how these things are accomplished and giving a novice the means by which to kill people is never a good engineering practice.

The results of such irresponsible advice can be seen below.

If you want to give these people advice then you are an irresponsible fool, and very well could be contributing to someone's death.

I think If you continue on CR4 you will realize that the quality of replies by our members is directly related to the quality of the questions presented to us.

Vague, poorly worded questions, lacking any necessary background information, using unknown abbreviations, will not be well received. We do not like playing 20 questions with a poster in order to find out what he is really asking and why he is asking. We don"t want to say anything that could place the poster or others in danger if thy do not understand what we are telling them.

Another problem we have here, because we are an international site, is that many questions are presented by individuals who have limited literacy in English. Most of us do the best that we can to interpret these questions, but misunderstandings are inevitable.

Finally, unfortunately, there are certain individuals who have come to CR4 with the need to make irrelevant and often insulting comments to every post. These individuals do not represent the long standing membership of this forum, and should just be ignored.

"I think If you continue on CR4 you will realize that the quality of replies by our members is directly related to the quality of the questions presented to us."

They used to call that garbage in, garbage out in the old days of software development.

Now it seems recycling has taken over.