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#52
Originally Posted by chemist View Post
Really? Please watch your tone. It is not needed to tell someone off without providing a link to those posts (not threads). If you do not like to help people out why do you bother to write down anything?

Thanks for the suggestion but you may be the only one with such an impression, as for me i don't feel i included a "tone" which would require intervention, unless you got distracted by my appearance, so may i suggest that you check your "receiver"? If you had browsed through my stats you would have seen that I love to help wherever i can (not only), but having good antennas which can well distinguish cases where laziness or even over-enthusiasm is involved, i left this gap purposely in this case, to trigger curiosity, to make the OP and others use the search function, it's called self-help assistance. I believe in learning processes, so in most cases a direct approach is the most effective way to make people learn the abc of proper forum usage, for this place is messy enough already. Should i have paved the way with rosebuds by adding emoticons? Should i search on behalf of other people who don't want to search for whatever reason? Now you can argue that giving methodical hints be the job of a moderator, but frankly, i don't feel like waiting until hell freezes over.

This is sad, trolls mostly get away with their actions but clear, non-rude statements which are meant to preserve the structural integrity get criticized. Moderation is a wonderful thing. It's also ridiculous that i am asked to elaborate on such a trifle, because no glass has been broken...
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