Re: Don't take this personal but just take it in. - Edit 1
Before modification by everynametaken at 09/05/2010 02:20:06 AM
I don't see why it's necessary to discourage someone from solving a problem themselves, particularly when the only thing they lack (knowledge) is readily available on the internet. I further don't see why it's necessary to post nothing more than "don't do what you want to do" with no supporting information. I see people do this all the time, and I don't understand why they bother taking the time to type something. When you have nothing at all to contribute to a post, just let it be! I don't mean to single you out, but this stuff is really frustrating. Someone's having a problem and wants help. Either give it, or go away.
Actually my original post also told him he clearly didn't know what he is doing. He tried to install the partition and it didn't work. He clearly doesn't know what he is doing but I thought I might hurt his feelings so I edited that part out. Yes, maybe I should encourage him but I didn't. I've been dealing all week with people who fuck their computers up and then want someone to bails them out (primarily me) so people bumbling with their computers when they don't have the skill to was very salient to me and I probably jumped the gun and made an assumption when I shouldn't have. I'd rather have just erased my response but guess what? I can't because of the inability to do so. So, I left what I did.
Still, it isn't that bad of advice. If he can;t figure it out and is just making it worse then he should just take it in and have someone who knows what he or she is doing do it properly.