Other peoples' problems

[fotomeow]

Unfortunately it depend on what mood i'm in, but I am better these days at "practicing restraint", and choose my battles more wisely, and less frequently.

 

[Pherdinand]

tell'em MFers they r all RONG.
YOU'll speep betta.

 

[Highway 61]

I've been getting better at keeping my mouth (my fingers) shut ...

+1.

Yet it's sometimes difficult when there is obviously something to discuss, or when the topic is involving someone wanting to get some advices while you have some tangible matter to write down about it.

The common trap is : someone opens a thread, or asks some questions, while having their opinion firmly set up already. Then anything a bit critical and not being what the OP was waiting for might be seen as some "dog piling". Then two camps promptly set up, the pros and the cons, and the same arguments get developed over and over.

In this case, this clearly shows the limits of webforums, because despite the number of participants, and their various backgrounds, some discussions quickly become as nasty as any real one taking place in front of some beers after a harsh working day and involving people not really wanting to listen to each other...

In the meantime, tons of interesting topics are getting buried into the forum old threads, with very few hope of getting found back by the search engine... as if they had never existed.

I have found that when someone asks about a certain camera problem I take their problem and make it mine...I'll search for an answer, part number or where they can find what they're looking for...then, I think about what I've just done and ask...if I can find their answer in just a few minutes then they should also be able to do the same...
I have also written replies to threads then deleted them and walked away...for the same reason...or while reading a thread I see that someone has responded with what I want to say then I don't because it's been said already...
I have given my "Quick" opinion in the past but now I think about responding a bit longer and usually opt not to...As much as I want to say "Who Cares??" I refrain from doing so...

+1 too.

 

[telenous]

Isn't this an age-related thing? You let old earth take a few whirls and you feel like you've seen everything. So, I'm trying not to forget that topics which seem to me absolutely useless right now may have interested or even infatuated younger versions of myself. Sometimes, I'd have liked to have a word with earlier time-slices of myself...not that it'd have changed anything, I don't think...

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[Addy101]

I struggle at times to keep myself from jumping into a thread and saying "Who cares?", or "Is this really your biggest problem?", or "Buy the d#@n thing and see what happens" . . . or some smarta$$, snarky commentary like that.

So, my question is . . . do you find yourself dropping your opinion on a topic that you really (really really) don't care about ?

All the time 😡:bang:

 

[Bike Tourist]

Here I am, about to make a totally inane comment on the line appearing under Andy101's post, and here it is:

"Das Bild ist ein Modell der Wirklichkeit - Wittgenstein "

He obviously lived before Photoshop!

That's it. Sorry. We have to keep the conversation flowing.

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Usually, I do feel like writing something like "And since when is that a problem?"

But then, I remember my days posting in Photo.net, and don't do it.

This forum is admirably civilized, why wreck it? So, I keep plugging along...

 

[Addy101]

Here I am, about to make a totally inane comment on the line appearing under Andy101's post, and here it is:

"Das Bild ist ein Modell der Wirklichkeit - Wittgenstein "

He obviously lived before Photoshop!

That's it. Sorry. We have to keep the conversation flowing.

He did, he died in 1951 :angel:

 

[news shooter]

Sorry, going off topic...

Sorry, going off topic...

This is the only forum I've ever really participated in, and I used to make a lot more comments, but a year or two ago I decided that no one really thought about other peoples opinions anyway, so why bother?
My breaking point was a thread asking questions about picture framing. This has been my profession for 25 years, and I really know what I'm doing. But people who don't do this for a living wanted to argue about it. I cannot understand why. And I suddenly couldn't understand why I was wasting my time pissing into the wind.

I think people start threads looking to bolster their own opinions, usually not to have them changed.

Feel in some manner the same way. Don't know if it's just me but, when I ask a question never get an answer. Just crickets. Yeah, I'm new here don't care about being popular just want some answers. Really enjoy it hear.
An old saying that helps with original post is: "take what you can and leave the rest"
Thanks
Ross