A few weeks ago, I started helping other members of Tech-Republic by trying to answer questions in the Q&A section of this site. Over the last few weeks, I have become annoyed to the point, where I no longer feel like I want to help. I thought the whole point system added a level of fun to helping others out but it was never my original intention. I felt that by helping others out, I could help others and learn a few things myself. What I have learned is that many technical people are ungrateful, disrespectful and rude. I have found that people post questions that are half-baked, not containing all the information of the issue they have. I have spent many hours trying to answer questions, research an issue that I have had and looked up KB’s so the person could have the info direct from the manufacture. The results I get are,
People don?t take the time to ever come back and look at the answer
Reject the answer without saying why, provide information as to what was the reason yourejected the answer and why.
Reject the answer with comments such as,
I did that already. If you did it all ready, why didn?t you put it in your question?
Open a question, then reject everyone?s answer, never say why, perhaps to keep the points? Some members never accept any answers from what I have seen, its an obvious pattern.
Respond to questions about the question with “I think I made my self perfectly clear”, and out right abusive answers in reply to some answers to the questions.
I even had one-person reply back to my wife because he didn?t get my email address correct and left her an earful.
I have written to TechRepublic in regards to these issues and relieved a reply that they recognized these issues but had no way to enforce their policies. I also looked for a way to email the forum leader, couldn?t find one. I?m being burned out on helping people on TechRepublic.