Mistakes In Helping
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Hello, I have been trying to help people on the wordpress.COM forums BUT have made some mistakes in some of the answers I have gave on here!!
I have corrected myself and also have been corrected in some of the answers I have gave, I do NOT mind being corrected AT ALL.
I hope nobody minds that I have made some mistakes on some of the help answers I have gave here, I am human :/ I am nowhere near perfect!!
I guess, I am trying to ask if it is ALRIGHT that I have made some mistakes on some of my answers? Again, I am NOWHERE NEAR PERFECT but I try to help….
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Of course it is alright to make mistakes! We can’t really expect everyone to be an expert on everything, that’s why it’s a community forum, so if you don’t know, someone else will.
You don’t need to apologise, everyone, even people who have been doing this for many years, still makes mistakes. We all learn through everyone else on the forums, it’s nothing to worry about.
If you don’t know the answer, just subscribe and find out what someone else has to say on the matter, or search the support documents or forums to see if it has come up previously (usually it has).
Just as an aside, really, the forum is only for support questions, there used to be an off-topic section, but I think it was getting too hectic and hard to control, so now the forum is only supposed to be used for wordpress.com support.
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Saying nothing when you have nothing to add or don’t know the correct answer can be a virtue. Tons of comments that seem to border on spam at times can make it harder to check an answer and is more work for others
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Danielisreading, thank you very, very much!! :)
Also, I am dearly sorry if this thread is considered off-topic, I do NOT know if it is considered “off-topic” or not….
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Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody gets corrected. We just all deal with it.
The important thing, to keep the forum running smoothly for everyone, is to see if someone has already answered the question and if they have, don’t add to the thread. If you do, even to say “yes, that’s the right answer” then the volunteer thinks it’s someone with a related question and comes back to help. It wastes time. So that’s the biggest time-and-aggravation-saving tip I have.
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Saying nothing when you have nothing to add or don’t know the correct answer can be a virtue. Tons of comments that seem to border on spam at times can make it harder to check an answer and is more work for others
Frankly I do mind and my advice is somewhat different. Yes we make mistakes and yes we will be corrected. My opinion is that well intended people bopping in and out of thread and adding no substance to them are annoying and I chose yesterday simply to watch you rather than to correct you. I will not longer make that choice. Nothing is more annoying than someone posting twaddle or extraneous rubbish into threads and acting like a child. Next to that when it come to annoying is doing the tailgating accompanied by the inane little sir echo bit example: raincoaster is right!
Of course she is. She has been here for 7 years as have I and you are not in a position to validate either her answers or mine. Moreover, comments like that are tripe so don’t post them.
If you do not have a correct answer to provide you waste the time of the person asking for help and your own time. You can and have turned forum threads into gong shows as regular Volunteers who could be helping others had to post to correct the wrong answer you posted. Then you countered with this sucky thread – get back!
It’s my not humble opinion that all who want to help here need to learn correct answers first by lurking for about 3 months. During that time they can learn what the correct answers are by becoming adept at using search, reading the earlier answers provided by experienced Volunteers, Staff and getting up close and personal with support documentation.
Only post when you have an answer you are convinced is a correct one that you can back up with links to answers previously provided by regular Volunteers and/or Staff in forum threads and/or to support documentation.
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I’d add that it’s a good idea to set up a private test blog so that if a question is about something theme specific, you can use it to study the problem.
Lots of good advice has been provided here. But it is time to close this thread.
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