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Hmm...Bickering?
Not so much technology, but definitely advicenators.
I've been reading questions recently, and noticing more and more that someone will post an answer, and the next person will say something like "I would like to point out to [insert advicenator's name here] that this person was not asking THIS, he/she was asking THAT." or "[insert advicenator's name here], you're WRONG."
If an advicenator is wrong about something like a definition, it shows in the rest of the answers that come up - it's unnecessary to tell them they're wrong.
Does it bother anyone else when advicenators bicker, or pick on other advicenators' advice?
I dunno, I just thought this was a site for people to help each other.
Am I wrong?
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I don't like it either. If its just a minor
error it makes the person pointing it out
look kind of like a snot.
On the other hand, if the advice is potentially
harmful...It could be a help until a moderator
gets it deleted. Of course when that user is
banned or that answer gets deleted, the one
pointing it out looks like a real goof. The
one who asked will be left saying what are
you talking about?
Best advice for all is if you aren't very
sure of your answer then pass up that question.
You could be left looking like a fool.
If the advice given is harmful or incorrect,
especially, as Razhie pointed out, if it is
something to do with sex, pregnancy etc. File
an abuse report so it can be dealt with.
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I disagree. Often a majority of users are wrong, and you must take each of their arguments and disprove them, lest the user get the wrong answer.
Here is a hypothetical question where I think it would be important to rebut the other user's arguments:
Question: I have a computer virus. What should I do?
Answer 1:DELETE EVERYTHING
Answer 2:Use AVG
Answer 3:wow yur screwed buy a new one kthxbye
I would answer this question with:
It is unnecessary to delete everything for a simple virus. AVG sucks, and will not fix your problem. It is an extreme waste of money to buy a new computer over a simple software problem like this. [go on to give advice]
If I would have just given my advice without mentioning the others, the asker might have believed one of the other answers were more correct(or easier), and not have followed mine.
I do this a lot. It's not personal, and I'm not trying to hurt the other columnist's feelings, but I think it's critical that the asker gets the correct answer.
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I agree with that the bickering and 'calling out' gets a bit out of control lately, but we SHOULD correct one another polietly and offer counter points to other peices of advice. That, in my opinion, is part of being thorough. Although with defination questions is much clearer, with other topics (lets take sex, as an example) I think it's very, very important to point out that information given was incorrect.
I know I've been incorrect in advice I've given before. I don't resent it being pointed out in a polite way. I learn something, and helps me improve.
As so many things in this world it comes down to respect. Being rude, disrespectful and even given bad advice, is not agianst strictly against the rules (although, if you are in doubt about something you see, alwasy report it and let a moderator decide if they should get involved).
Sadly, we can't demand all collumnists behave respectfully, we can only model the behavoir.
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I think that its all in the way the person says it.
The goal here is to help people out.
If a person answers the question incorrectly, the person who asked the question should know, right?
So, to an extent no it doesn't. But if people take it too seriously, yes. If they just say "persononadvicenators was wrong when they said that, its actually just the opposite" then i dont think there is a problem with it.
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No, I think you are right. I only answer topics if I've had a similar situation, experience or something I've been taught. I don't know about anyone else's qualification but my own. So if I happen to answer someones question for an example, about a choice in what college to attended then I'll base my advice on what I know about attending college. There's no point in arguing unless that person who says "you are wrong" has some sort of credentials to back it up, like a doctor who is correcting someone's bad advise. More than likely over half these answers maybe found online elsewhere, but people chose to come here to ask and that's fine, that's what the Internet is for. Most of the time there's no right or wrong answer only experiences lived by others.
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