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Feb 24, 2016

Current version by: Nick

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A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

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	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook account(in other words, very rarely), I this at least warrants a explanation. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

-	Just to make it clear: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from upgrades. I have no problem with helping people if they want it and I certainly will so secrecy isn't a reason. I will often take these from people replacing it, because most of the time it's "too old" for them or it's an easy fix and it's going to be in the landfill, but at the same time I will help someone fix it if they want to at least see if it's viable. I mainly got in this to build credibility since I lacked any certifications but now that I have some I really can't say this is the reason. I still do, but the certifications help the credibility problem and this is a nice extra to fall back on. I also kind of did this to prove my weight in this too, especially back in the HS days when you were laughed off for being "too young and dumb". My primary reason for walking away was the ignorance of Answers. I just couldn't take it anymore. It was a combination of the lack of response in Answers I dealt with for years, the lack of reward for my guides and the fact there hasn't been a effective solution yet.
+	Just to make it clear: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from upgrades. I have no problem with helping people if they want it and I certainly will so secrecy isn't a reason. I will often take these from people replacing it, because most of the time it's "too old" for them or it's an easy fix and it's going to be in the landfill, but at the same time I will help someone fix it if they want to at least see if it's viable. I mainly got in this to build credibility since I lacked any certifications but now that I have some I really can't say this is the reason. I still do, but the certifications help the credibility problem and this is a nice extra to fall back on. I also kind of did this to prove my weight in this too, especially back in the HS days when you were laughed off for being "too young and dumb". My primary reason for walking away was the ignorance of Answers. I just couldn't take it anymore. It was a combination of the lack of response in Answers I dealt with for years, the lack of reward for my guides and the fact there hasn't been a effective solution yet.

	Okay. School had a role in it, but I was also doing dual enrollment so I couldn't make time for iFixit that easily so there was a reason.
-	As of 2016 iFixit has made small progress on the issue but I still think that it's not much better. Even though I fully think this and back it I will give them credit for making progress.
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+	As of 2016 iFixit has made small progress on the issue but I still think that it's not much better. Even though I fully think this and back it I will give them credit for making progress.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution that I think will work. :-)

-	• First problem: How '''nobody''' marks answers on iFixit for whose answer solved the problem. This has been a problem for '''years on end''', so this isn't all that new. It's a rather old problem. This is more of a member fault, if anything. They will ask the question and ditch it, never returning.
+	• First problem: How '''nobody''' marks answers on iFixit for whose answer solved the problem. This has been a problem for '''years on end''', so this isn't all that new. It's a rather old problem. This is more of a member fault, if anything. They will ask the question and ditch it, never returning.

-	There's many names you can use to describe this opinion. Greedy, crazy, impatient or simply not giving enough time to solve it. I don't think this is greedy or crazy, and this opinion is warranted and I have been patient for years on end so I also am not clling it because of one question. This has happened many, many times over. All I really want is to get acknowledged if my solution did it, but if it didn't I think the question owner should at least come back and mark it. This does not happen, and it gets tiring. Usually, this is resolved by a community acceptance because they gave up on the owner coming back, so eventually the question is "solved", but it's at the expense of getting tired of getting ignored and it sitting unresolved for years. I would like to think the problem has gotten better and it's less community flagging but I don't see this getting better anytime soon.
+	There's many names you can use to describe this opinion. Greedy, crazy, impatient or simply not giving enough time to solve it. I don't think this is greedy or crazy, and this opinion is warranted and I have been patient for years on end so I also am not clling it because of one question. This has happened many, many times over. All I really want is to get acknowledged if my solution did it, but if it didn't I think the question owner should at least come back and mark it. This does not happen, and it gets tiring. Usually, this is resolved by a community acceptance because they gave up on the owner coming back, so eventually the question is "solved", but it's at the expense of getting tired of getting ignored and it sitting unresolved for years. I would like to think the problem has gotten better and it's less community flagging but I don't see this getting better anytime soon.
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	If you were rational, would you accept this? Probably not. You'd walk away and wait for a solution or walk away for good. I certainly feel this is a valid argument to defend my choice to walk away and let the problem fix itself before I come back. I'm not going to deal with this problem. If my time isn't appreciated, I'm out. I don't think it would hurt the person asking to just come back, yet somehow they don't.
-	As of 2016, I have noticed a diminished amount of community flagging. From what I can tell, it's probably not because the poster left the question but the main problem questions have been worked on years ago, and now most of it is junk questions that are simply beyond answering or community answer accepting. This is at least progress to reducing the "dead" questions.
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+	As of 2016, I have noticed a diminished amount of community flagging. From what I can tell, it's probably not because the poster left the question but the main problem questions have been worked on years ago, and now most of it is junk questions that are simply beyond answering or community answer accepting. This is at least progress to reducing the "dead" questions.

	Also as of 2016, iFixit has also attempted certain things to fix this low accept rate. Is it help? Maybe. As of late I have been focusing on guides, and dealing with my older guides that are best retired permanently and deleted and fixing the ones that make sense. I will have to spend time in Answers to form an opinion in this respect. Right now, I'm staying neutral.

-	In respect to guides the reason I very often don't get to them promptly is because of low read rates, and as a result low return for the effort for the work I put in. I just think this doesn't make sense. I make the guide, get ignored and realize I made it for nothing. One example is the Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning guide. This guide was 4 years old at the time(now 6) and the reason I have not really done much until recently is this ignorance problem. I just did not see the point for many years. If the guide was appreciated more visibly then I would have gotten a printer sooner.
+	In respect to guides the reason I very often don't get to them promptly is because of low read rates, and as a result low return for the effort for the work I put in. I just think this doesn't make sense. I make the guide, get ignored and realize I made it for nothing. One example is the Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning guide. This guide was 4 years old at the time(now 6) and the reason I have not really done much until recently is this ignorance problem. I just did not see the point for many years. If the guide was appreciated more visibly then I would have gotten a printer sooner.
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	As of 2016, I have made strides in this project. I have the text finalized, so all I need to do is remove a printhead from a printer since the pictures I need to take are so unique. One of the other small, but other reasons for this delay is acquisition problems, since I no longer own this printer(printhead failure beyond help). One reason is money. I am not paying for one of these things. People want way too much more often then not, for a Inkjet printer no less. Anything more then $5-8 is too much. People don't get this, and think they can get $50 for a printer that's many years old. I might be better off sourcing out a newer model that's very, very similar and simply working from scratch. In this case, all I care about is this:
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	* It's 3-in-1 (Print/Copy/Scan)
	* It uses HP 564 ink tanks
	* It uses a 564 printhead I can remove

	As long as it meets that, I literally DO NOT CARE how new it is. It can have ePrint for all I care. In regards to money and expanding on it, any of us in this field probably know how much of an offender Goodwill can and will be. They want a lot more then I consider reasonable ($5-8) but not as insane as the Craigslist sellers ($10-25) are. Not only that, but that's probably for a printer that needs work to boot. No thanks. This leaves Goodwill out, so that only makes it worse. A lot of them also need ink, so I factor ink into the risk factor. Ink is always 10x more then the printer. Physical head failure is another concern I'd have. If the head is a lost cause it's $80 to replace. I'm eWasting it if the head is bad. eBay has heads at $20-40, but they're almost always used. Those can leak and fail, and if it fails so soon you wasted your money, so the risk doesn't make sense.
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	I also have options when it comes to scanning, since I use Inkjets for scanners most of the time anyway. I can use the AIO that's not mine, but available, get a dedicated scanner or get a used printer. I'd rather go with using the one at my disposal or a dedicated scanner, frankly. I won't not use an Inkjet but it's not my first choice. In short, I have 3 options with scanning.

	* Buy a overpriced Goodwill printer, or any other thrift store
	* Buy a dedicated scanner that works with Win7 x64
	* Use the HP AIO I have available to me

-	I have chosen the AIO available to me for now, at least until I can get a scanner that's compatible or find a AIO that works. This is probably going to be my solution long term. Problems like that are also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 64-bit setup guide since that was a quick and easy one to make, and publish. I could squeeze that in so I figured that made sense. With the Photosmart guide, not so much. I need to source out a printer, clean the head and then take pictures as I go and then make the guide. I also will probably have to invest money into it. I don't need to do that with SW. The This 10NES guide was no different. For now, until the problem gets better it's not a major priority. I will do it when I see a point to it, at least with guides like that. I see nothing wrong with quick guides that help a lot of people but they have to be little to no cost.
-	As of 2016 I did get the text done right. I literally just need a printer.
+	I have chosen the AIO available to me for now, at least until I can get a scanner that's compatible or find a AIO that works. This is probably going to be my solution long term. Problems like that are also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 64-bit setup guide since that was a quick and easy one to make, and publish. I could squeeze that in so I figured that made sense. With the Photosmart guide, not so much. I need to source out a printer, clean the head and then take pictures as I go and then make the guide. I also will probably have to invest money into it. I don't need to do that with SW. The This 10NES guide was no different. For now, until the problem gets better it's not a major priority. I will do it when I see a point to it, at least with guides like that. I see nothing wrong with quick guides that help a lot of people but they have to be little to no cost.
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+	As of 2016 I did get the text done right. I literally just need a printer.

	•Second issue: Member ignorance in Answers

	Since I have been here for years I can say that as the site got older, less people actually checked as time went on. Very few people check Answers due to the lack of appreciation and questions being abandoned. Even I stopped checking because of it. I do check on occasion but not to the same degree. If it's something I know I will certainly chime in but it's not a regular thing anymore. This is because of how bad the return rate of the person who posted the questions has gotten. I don't like to spend my time in ways that lead to getting blown off, so I naturally decided to cut regularly checking Answers. I sympathize with people who just gave up, but don't completely agree at the same time. My approach seems better. The vast majority of us are volunteers and not staff.
-	Mayer has also made some good points in the past too, especially with member vs staff designation. It looks like everyone is a staff member with how members and staff are sorted. Something has to be done about that.
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+	Mayer has also made some good points in the past too, especially with member vs staff designation. It looks like everyone is a staff member with how members and staff are sorted. Something has to be done about that.

	As I have mentioned before, the current systems in place now don’t work, since one eMail isn’t enough to get people to check. Even though I'm one of the better ones here, I still do not know everything. Sometimes I have to ask a question too. The problems this create not only affects how much I want to contribute, but it also affects me when I need some help too. Ignorance isn't helping, and it's not a good way to get people to chime in on Answers. Even Facebook groups have a better return rate on answers. There's no "accepted" answer but the person who asked at least acknowledges everyone. This problem was partially why I am dealing with the certifications. In a paid environment, this is fine since you get paid to deal with it.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

-	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School~~, since~~ I was ~~basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid~~ in ~~my school doing college level work then~~. ~~I have since graduated, so this is less of~~ a problem~~. To be honest,~~ it ~~felt like more work then dual enrollment in college~~.
+	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School in the position I was in at the time. It's no longer a problem, but it was at one point.

	• Fourth issue: Certifications

-	While not a major role in my lack of time spent on Answers it did play a very small part in comparison to the other issues. I got one of my first certifications in 2014, which can be found [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|here]. It's not it, though.
+	While not a major role in my lack of time spent on Answers it did play a very small part in comparison to the other issues. I got one of my first certifications in 2014, which can be found [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|here]. It's not it, though.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some part. Hopefully this gets taken seriously and the ideas are implemented. I think this will at least solve some of them, but at the same time my ideas may not be the best. I'm more or less coming up with stuff that has a chance.

	== Some solutions. ==

-	To fix the accept rate situation, here's what I think should be done
+	To fix the accept rate situation, here's what I think should be done
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	'''* Send out infrequent eMail reminders to people who don't check their question'''
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	'''* If the person does not check after a certain amount of time, get more and more persistent'''
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	If the eMails do not stop, then they can't ignore it. They CAN put it in the spam folder, but it still gets sent and shown as a new message and any smart spam filter should know unless it's in the user set spam filter. This is spammy, but it would work.
-	I have not tested this personally, because Answers is not my major concern these days. At this point, I tend to do more guides. As I said I pop in but not often enough to make the final judgement if this worked or not. I am not the right person to ask.
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+	I have not tested this personally, because Answers is not my major concern these days. At this point, I tend to do more guides. As I said I pop in but not often enough to make the final judgement if this worked or not. I am not the right person to ask.

	To fix the member and staff designation
-	I have attached a crude Paint drawing from 2014. I will also attach the 2016 version. This will make it clear IFixit isn't just staff members, at least.
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+	I have attached a crude Paint drawing from 2014. I will also attach the 2016 version. This will make it clear IFixit isn't just staff members, at least.

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	[image\|93895]
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	In comparison to the old version, I like this one. It puts more emphasis on the members then the staff. This was the right way to go about it.

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Feb 24, 2016

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

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	Hello iFixit,

-	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook account(in other words, very rarely), I ~~feel I should~~ at least ~~attempt to explain why~~. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.
+	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook account(in other words, very rarely), I this at least warrants a explanation. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

-	~~Let me clarify this now~~: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from ~~secrecy~~. I have no problem ~~giving my time away to others who would need~~ it ~~for free,~~ so ~~let’s get this out~~ of the ~~way now so I don’t have~~ to ~~settle such drama~~ in the ~~replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play~~, but ~~only~~ if I ~~can tell it will happen.~~ ~~Money was a non-issue,~~ since I ~~had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and~~ now that I am this ~~will likely become less~~ of ~~an issue as time goes by~~ and ~~it’s more known~~ I ~~have~~ a ~~certification to~~ my ~~name~~.
+	Just to make it clear: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from upgrades. I have no problem with helping people if they want it and I certainly will so secrecy isn't a reason. I will often take these from people replacing it, because most of the time it's "too old" for them or it's an easy fix and it's going to be in the landfill, but at the same time I will help someone fix it if they want to at least see if it's viable. I mainly got in this to build credibility since I lacked any certifications but now that I have some I really can't say this is the reason. I still do, but the certifications help the credibility problem and this is a nice extra to fall back on. I also kind of did this to prove my weight in this too, especially back in the HS days when you were laughed off for being "too young and dumb". My primary reason for walking away was the ignorance of Answers. I just couldn't take it anymore. It was a combination of the lack of response in Answers I dealt with for years, the lack of reward for my guides and the fact there hasn't been a effective solution yet.

-	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material well-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit. It also has to do with the fact I was always busy I didn’t have the time anymore, along with guide contribution ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough to curve the issue in my eyes at times. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer a issue. I should also say I will credit iFixit for trying, but you don't do enough to tame the issue over there and it's aggravating.
+	Okay. School had a role in it, but I was also doing dual enrollment so I couldn't make time for iFixit that easily so there was a reason.
+	As of 2016 iFixit has made small progress on the issue but I still think that it's not much better. Even though I fully think this and back it I will give them credit for making progress.

-	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)
+	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution that I think will work. :-)

-	• First problem: How '''nobody''' ~~seems to mark the~~ answers on iFixit ~~who~~ solved the problem~~, even though this~~ has been ~~an issue~~ for '''years''', ~~if you want to be honest about it. No,~~ this isn't ~~about how iFixit treats users but~~ the ~~members who ask questions to ignore them~~
+	• First problem: How '''nobody''' marks answers on iFixit for whose answer solved the problem. This has been a problem for '''years on end''', so this isn't all that new. It's a rather old problem. This is more of a member fault, if anything. They will ask the question and ditch it, never returning.

-	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciate my support and not leave a question behind for others to flag the answer on, or even leave multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, and doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap. If it wasn't, you'd help the ignorant one who doesn't care and makes you feel bad. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel many of the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site, which gets worse every day that goes by, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.
+	There's many names you can use to describe this opinion. Greedy, crazy, impatient or simply not giving enough time to solve it. I don't think this is greedy or crazy, and this opinion is warranted and I have been patient for years on end so I also am not clling it because of one question. This has happened many, many times over. All I really want is to get acknowledged if my solution did it, but if it didn't I think the question owner should at least come back and mark it. This does not happen, and it gets tiring. Usually, this is resolved by a community acceptance because they gave up on the owner coming back, so eventually the question is "solved", but it's at the expense of getting tired of getting ignored and it sitting unresolved for years. I would like to think the problem has gotten better and it's less community flagging but I don't see this getting better anytime soon.
+	If you were rational, would you accept this? Probably not. You'd walk away and wait for a solution or walk away for good. I certainly feel this is a valid argument to defend my choice to walk away and let the problem fix itself before I come back. I'm not going to deal with this problem. If my time isn't appreciated, I'm out. I don't think it would hurt the person asking to just come back, yet somehow they don't.
+	As of 2016, I have noticed a diminished amount of community flagging. From what I can tell, it's probably not because the poster left the question but the main problem questions have been worked on years ago, and now most of it is junk questions that are simply beyond answering or community answer accepting. This is at least progress to reducing the "dead" questions.

-	~~This is the reason I~~ also ~~do not put out a lot~~ of guides and will delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 14 or 15 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later. Since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have ~~had no incentive to find~~ the ~~same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers and went for a LaserJet to replace it after the printhead failed due to ink binding~~. I will ~~find one at some point but at the same time I~~ have a very limited incentive to find one when my efforts will be ignored. The other issue is the only place that really sells descent used printers here is Goodwill, who also thinks 10-20.00 for a series of printer notorious for printhead failures are worth that much money, when they aren't. I have seen them go as high as 25.00 for some AIO printers. The other issue is they don't replace the ink to save money since they know full well ink costs more then the printer and justifying 25.00 printers with good ink negates their 100% profit on leftovers because the ink costs more then the printer. The other problem is the printheads go bad with use, ink shorts it dead or someone was stupid enough to use pigment inks in a refill without flushing the head 100% clean, thus ruining it. And to add insult to injury, HP charges about 80.00 for the 5 color 564 printhedas, so it doesn't make sense to replace the head. It's more practical to dump the whole printer at a thrift store who takes leftovers like Goodwill. You could go the eBay route for 20-40.00, but I don't like buying used printheads since you don't know how much use they had and if they have the leak shortly after the return window. There is too much uncertainty for me to buy an eBay 564 printhead. If this offends anyone you can if you want, but I want assurance the part won't crap out shortly after I bought it. The other issue is Goodwill pricing is so bad most of the time, they expect 15-20.00 for a used printer that needs ink or a printhead, or has other issues. My Goodwill usually doesn't have a lot of HP Photosmarts but they have a lot of Canon, HP, Dell, Kodak, Lexmark and clogged C84/C88/C88+ printers. I am also not willing to spend ~~the crazy money on a printer Goodwill asks, either. You can see one of my comments on the head cost and the problems with the 564 head as~~ to ~~why. The hard limit for any printer at Goodwill for me is 5.00. This is nothing more then buyer's remorse control for me with used printers~~ in ~~general~~. ~~I also don't use Inkjets for more then a scanner anyway due to my LaserJet~~, ~~in which case I use my dad's HP AIO for most of the time anyway~~. I just send the job to my LaserJet and print it that way. I can also settle on a dedicated scanner and not worry about a printer side failing to crash the scanner part with it, which I would actually use the most and leave it at that. I have 3 options here with this as I have laid out
+	Also as of 2016, iFixit has also attempted certain things to fix this low accept rate. Is it help? Maybe. As of late I have been focusing on guides, and dealing with my older guides that are best retired permanently and deleted and fixing the ones that make sense. I will have to spend time in Answers to form an opinion in this respect. Right now, I'm staying neutral.

-	* Buy a overpriced Goodwill printer
+	In respect to guides the reason I very often don't get to them promptly is because of low read rates, and as a result low return for the effort for the work I put in. I just think this doesn't make sense. I make the guide, get ignored and realize I made it for nothing. One example is the Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning guide. This guide was 4 years old at the time(now 6) and the reason I have not really done much until recently is this ignorance problem. I just did not see the point for many years. If the guide was appreciated more visibly then I would have gotten a printer sooner.
+	As of 2016, I have made strides in this project. I have the text finalized, so all I need to do is remove a printhead from a printer since the pictures I need to take are so unique. One of the other small, but other reasons for this delay is acquisition problems, since I no longer own this printer(printhead failure beyond help). One reason is money. I am not paying for one of these things. People want way too much more often then not, for a Inkjet printer no less. Anything more then $5-8 is too much. People don't get this, and think they can get $50 for a printer that's many years old. I might be better off sourcing out a newer model that's very, very similar and simply working from scratch. In this case, all I care about is this:
+	* It's 3-in-1 (Print/Copy/Scan)
+	* It uses HP 564 ink tanks
+	* It uses a 564 printhead I can remove
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+	As long as it meets that, I literally DO NOT CARE how new it is. It can have ePrint for all I care. In regards to money and expanding on it, any of us in this field probably know how much of an offender Goodwill can and will be. They want a lot more then I consider reasonable ($5-8) but not as insane as the Craigslist sellers ($10-25) are. Not only that, but that's probably for a printer that needs work to boot. No thanks. This leaves Goodwill out, so that only makes it worse. A lot of them also need ink, so I factor ink into the risk factor. Ink is always 10x more then the printer. Physical head failure is another concern I'd have. If the head is a lost cause it's $80 to replace. I'm eWasting it if the head is bad. eBay has heads at $20-40, but they're almost always used. Those can leak and fail, and if it fails so soon you wasted your money, so the risk doesn't make sense.
+	I also have options when it comes to scanning, since I use Inkjets for scanners most of the time anyway. I can use the AIO that's not mine, but available, get a dedicated scanner or get a used printer. I'd rather go with using the one at my disposal or a dedicated scanner, frankly. I won't not use an Inkjet but it's not my first choice. In short, I have 3 options with scanning.
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+	* Buy a overpriced Goodwill printer, or any other thrift store
	* Buy a dedicated scanner that works with Win7 x64
-	* Use ~~my dad's~~ HP AIO~~(Win7 x64 capable)~~
+	* Use the HP AIO I have available to me

-	Personally, I would borrow my dad's printer to scan or buy a dedicated scanner and leave it at that. The logic here is I don't need to worry about a print mechanism crapping out, or waste ink pad count errors or some error rendering the whole thing useless. Is this harsh? Yes, but it's also very true-it doesn't make sense to invest in a crappy AIO from Goodwill just to scan, when I can borrow one or get a dedicated scanner and forget about the Inkjet mechanism breaking down. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 64-bit setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. This isn't possible with the Photosmart Premium printhead guide, as I have to spend money I really don't want to on an actual printer, and where I am I do not need to buy a dedicated scanner anytime soon, anyway. This is also true for my 10NES guide, as that only took 10-15 minutes to mod and was easy to write. Honestly, until this ignorance is visibly improved I don't plan on contributing "big" guides like this unless I can get the hardware for 0.00. I should also note my Goodwill doesn't overprice everything, but they seem to do it a lot from the times I actually go, which isn't much due to the price issue.
+	I have chosen the AIO available to me for now, at least until I can get a scanner that's compatible or find a AIO that works. This is probably going to be my solution long term. Problems like that are also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 64-bit setup guide since that was a quick and easy one to make, and publish. I could squeeze that in so I figured that made sense. With the Photosmart guide, not so much. I need to source out a printer, clean the head and then take pictures as I go and then make the guide. I also will probably have to invest money into it. I don't need to do that with SW. The This 10NES guide was no different. For now, until the problem gets better it's not a major priority. I will do it when I see a point to it, at least with guides like that. I see nothing wrong with quick guides that help a lot of people but they have to be little to no cost.
+	As of 2016 I did get the text done right. I literally just need a printer.

-	~~How do I feel this~~ issue ~~can be fixed?~~ Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it and then delete it and go back to forgetting about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.
+	•Second issue: Member ignorance in Answers

-	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint
+	Since I have been here for years I can say that as the site got older, less people actually checked as time went on. Very few people check Answers due to the lack of appreciation and questions being abandoned. Even I stopped checking because of it. I do check on occasion but not to the same degree. If it's something I know I will certainly chime in but it's not a regular thing anymore. This is because of how bad the return rate of the person who posted the questions has gotten. I don't like to spend my time in ways that lead to getting blown off, so I naturally decided to cut regularly checking Answers. I sympathize with people who just gave up, but don't completely agree at the same time. My approach seems better. The vast majority of us are volunteers and not staff.
+	Mayer has also made some good points in the past too, especially with member vs staff designation. It looks like everyone is a staff member with how members and staff are sorted. Something has to be done about that.

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-	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013-2014
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-	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers
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-	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it but every time I do it seems like no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, which is member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we should get since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field, as that makes up for the mistreatment. As I have mentioned before, the current systems in place now don’t work, since one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check their post. I have even had this more often than not, too: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help. I already know this will be very, very unpopular with volunteer techs as this already annoyed one to not move to a new Facebook I made, but the ignorance volunteer techs get was part of my inspiration to start racking up certifications, so I can start making some money when the ignorance in volunteer support ignorance annoys me, so I can take a break from it. Anyone in my position will probably get where I am coming from in regards to wanting to play with the big ones in the wake of this. I will not give up on free support, but I have experimented with other options like forums where I got responses within 2-3 days regarding a scanner issue, and in the Facebook group Low End Mac/PC, people will actually help you on issues when I can't even get help here at times.
+	As I have mentioned before, the current systems in place now don’t work, since one eMail isn’t enough to get people to check. Even though I'm one of the better ones here, I still do not know everything. Sometimes I have to ask a question too. The problems this create not only affects how much I want to contribute, but it also affects me when I need some help too. Ignorance isn't helping, and it's not a good way to get people to chime in on Answers. Even Facebook groups have a better return rate on answers. There's no "accepted" answer but the person who asked at least acknowledges everyone. This problem was partially why I am dealing with the certifications. In a paid environment, this is fine since you get paid to deal with it.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more work then dual enrollment in college.

-	• Fourth issue: Certifications~~(fact-not a issue)~~
+	• Fourth issue: Certifications

-	~~Recently,~~ I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|~~certications~~] ~~I can say I have in my name~~, ~~which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it~~. ~~I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.~~
+	While not a major role in my lack of time spent on Answers it did play a very small part in comparison to the other issues. I got one of my first certifications in 2014, which can be found [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|here]. It's not it, though.

-	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some ~~parts,~~ and I ~~hope~~ some ~~people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it~~, ~~possibly change and probably help come~~ up with a ~~solution to the problems I have mentioned above~~. ~~I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.~~
+	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some part. Hopefully this gets taken seriously and the ideas are implemented. I think this will at least solve some of them, but at the same time my ideas may not be the best. I'm more or less coming up with stuff that has a chance.

-	== ~~update~~ ==
+	== Some solutions. ==

-	On June 6th, I have answered 3 questions as part of a test, and I have not had one looked back at by the OP yet and still remain unresolved. Of these questions, they were [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177429/HELP%3A+iPhone+5c+won%27t+turn+on%2C+NOT+water+damaged%2C+beeps+when+charging.#answer177542\|about 5c water damage related power issues], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177513/Battery%3A+good+or+bad#answer177523\|Kindle Fire HD battery testing], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177487/How+to+get+the+display+glas+off+of+the+LCD#answer177518\|iMac glass removal(fused iMac)], and [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/172587/hangs+at+setup+is+starting+windows#answer177509\|XP loading issues] and of all of these, I have no answer acceptances by the OP, and the XP one got one upvote and that has been it
+	To fix the accept rate situation, here's what I think should be done
+	'''* Send out infrequent eMail reminders to people who don't check their question'''
+	'''* If the person does not check after a certain amount of time, get more and more persistent'''
+	If the eMails do not stop, then they can't ignore it. They CAN put it in the spam folder, but it still gets sent and shown as a new message and any smart spam filter should know unless it's in the user set spam filter. This is spammy, but it would work.
+	I have not tested this personally, because Answers is not my major concern these days. At this point, I tend to do more guides. As I said I pop in but not often enough to make the final judgement if this worked or not. I am not the right person to ask.

-	The first round of testing has proven this isn't fixed yet, and this is a 10 day old post, and 10 day old answers
+	To fix the member and staff designation
+	I have attached a crude Paint drawing from 2014. I will also attach the 2016 version. This will make it clear IFixit isn't just staff members, at least.

-	=~~= update 2 ==~~
+	[image\|93555\|align=center]

-	I will say this about this post, since it is a positive change
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-	I asked if 11.89V on the 12V rail in a power supply is too much of a dip, which can be found [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/178855/Is+11.89V+on+the+12V+rail+considered+too+weak\|here] if anyone wants to see it, and I got a response the same day I posted it
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-	While I did not filly agree 11.89V is negligible, it is true that is minor so I accepted it, although I am sticking to my guns on this thing is scrap or a spare only and after I opened it, it's scrap most likely due to the build
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-	== update 3 ==
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-	Points revised and added
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-	== update 4 ==
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-	Take away feedback suggestion removed, grammar correction and spelling fixes
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-	== update 5 ==
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-	Major grammar cleanup
+	[image\|93895]
+	In comparison to the old version, I like this one. It puts more emphasis on the members then the staff. This was the right way to go about it.

Discussion Topic:

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Oct 9, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

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	Hello iFixit,

-	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook ~~accounts if you will(basically almost never~~, ~~if they actually do anymore~~), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.
+	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook account(in other words, very rarely), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

-	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.
+	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy. I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

-	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit. It also has to do with the fact I was always busy I didn’t have the time anymore, along with guide contribution ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough to curve the issue in my eyes at times. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer a issue. I should also say I will credit iFixit for trying, but you don't do enough to tame the issue over there and it's aggravating.
+	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material well-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit. It also has to do with the fact I was always busy I didn’t have the time anymore, along with guide contribution ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough to curve the issue in my eyes at times. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer a issue. I should also say I will credit iFixit for trying, but you don't do enough to tame the issue over there and it's aggravating.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

-	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciate my support and not leave a question behind for others to flag the answer on, or even leave multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, ~~or that nobody cares about my time~~. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel many of the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site, which gets worse every day that goes by, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.
+	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciate my support and not leave a question behind for others to flag the answer on, or even leave multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, and doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap. If it wasn't, you'd help the ignorant one who doesn't care and makes you feel bad. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel many of the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site, which gets worse every day that goes by, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

-	This is the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 14 or 15 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and got a LaserJet to replace it after the printhead failed for good. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to find one when my efforts will be ignored. The other issue is the only place that really sells used printers here is Goodwill, who also think 10-20.00 for a series of printer notorious for printhead failures are worth 10-20.00, or more. I have seen them go as high as 25.00 for Touchscreen printers. The other issue is they don't replace the ink so if the ink in the printer is dead I have to replace it, which overshadows the cost of a new printer with Inkjets the first time you need ink on a fair amount of Inkjet printers. The other problem is the printheads go bad with use, ink shorts it or someone was stupid enough to use pigment inks to refill the Vivera cartridge and the inks bind permanently in the head, thus ruining the printhead. To add insult to injury, HP charges about 80.00 for the 5 color(Photo Black) 564 printheds, so it doesn't make sense to replace the head; just dump the thing at Goodwill. You could go the eBay route for 20-40.00, but I don't like buying used printheads on the basis of you don't know how much use they had, if they have the leak problem the 564 heads are known for or if they will fail shortly after your eBay return window. There is too much uncertainty for me to buy an eBay 564 printhead. If this offends anyone go ahead and get offended, but I want assurance the part won't crap out anytime soon. The other issue is Goodwill pricing is so bad most of the time, they expect 10-20.00 for a used printer that needs ink or a printhead, or has other issues internally. The other issue is my Goodwill usually doesn't have a lot of HP Photosmarts but they have a lot of Canon, HP, Dell, Kodak, Lexmark and ink clogged C84/C88/C88+ printers. I am also not willing to spend the crazy money on a printer Goodwill asks, either-see one of my comments on the head cost and the problems with the 564 head as to why. The hard limit for any printer at Goodwill for me is 5.00, MAX. This is nothing more then buyer's remorse control for me with used printers in general. I also don't use Inkjets for more then a scanner anyway due to my LaserJet, in which case I use my dad's HP AIO for most of the time anyway. I just send the job to my LaserJet and print it that way. I can also settle on a dedicated scanner and not worry about a printer side failing to crash the scanner part with it, which I would actually use the most and leave it at that. I have 3 options here with this as I just laid out
+	This is the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and will delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 14 or 15 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later. Since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers and went for a LaserJet to replace it after the printhead failed due to ink binding. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to find one when my efforts will be ignored. The other issue is the only place that really sells descent used printers here is Goodwill, who also thinks 10-20.00 for a series of printer notorious for printhead failures are worth that much money, when they aren't. I have seen them go as high as 25.00 for some AIO printers. The other issue is they don't replace the ink to save money since they know full well ink costs more then the printer and justifying 25.00 printers with good ink negates their 100% profit on leftovers because the ink costs more then the printer. The other problem is the printheads go bad with use, ink shorts it dead or someone was stupid enough to use pigment inks in a refill without flushing the head 100% clean, thus ruining it. And to add insult to injury, HP charges about 80.00 for the 5 color 564 printhedas, so it doesn't make sense to replace the head. It's more practical to dump the whole printer at a thrift store who takes leftovers like Goodwill. You could go the eBay route for 20-40.00, but I don't like buying used printheads since you don't know how much use they had and if they have the leak shortly after the return window. There is too much uncertainty for me to buy an eBay 564 printhead. If this offends anyone you can if you want, but I want assurance the part won't crap out shortly after I bought it. The other issue is Goodwill pricing is so bad most of the time, they expect 15-20.00 for a used printer that needs ink or a printhead, or has other issues. My Goodwill usually doesn't have a lot of HP Photosmarts but they have a lot of Canon, HP, Dell, Kodak, Lexmark and clogged C84/C88/C88+ printers. I am also not willing to spend the crazy money on a printer Goodwill asks, either. You can see one of my comments on the head cost and the problems with the 564 head as to why. The hard limit for any printer at Goodwill for me is 5.00. This is nothing more then buyer's remorse control for me with used printers in general. I also don't use Inkjets for more then a scanner anyway due to my LaserJet, in which case I use my dad's HP AIO for most of the time anyway. I just send the job to my LaserJet and print it that way. I can also settle on a dedicated scanner and not worry about a printer side failing to crash the scanner part with it, which I would actually use the most and leave it at that. I have 3 options here with this as I have laid out
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	* Buy a overpriced Goodwill printer
+	* Buy a dedicated scanner that works with Win7 x64
	* Use my dad's HP AIO(Win7 x64 capable)
-	* Buy a dedicated scanner that works with Win7 x64
-	Personally, I would borrow my dad's printer to scan, or just buy a dedicated scanner and leave it at that, since I don't need to worry about a print mechanism crapping out, or waste ink pad count errors or some error rendering the whole thing useless. Is this harsh? Yes, but it's also very true-it doesn't make sense to invest in a crappy AIO from Goodwill just to scan, when I can borrow one or get a dedicated scanner and forget about the Inkjet mechanism breaking down. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 64-bit setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. This isn't possible with the Photosmart Premium printhead guide, as I have to spend money I really don't want to on an actual printer, and where I am I do not need to buy a dedicated scanner anytime soon, anyway. This is also true for my 10NES guide, as that only took 10-15 minutes to mod and was easy to write. Honestly, until this ignorance is visibly improved I don't plan on contributing "big" guides like this unless I can get the hardware for 0.00. I should also note my Goodwill doesn't overprice everything, but they seem to do it a lot from the times I actually go, which isn't much due to the price gouging issue.

-	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.
+	Personally, I would borrow my dad's printer to scan or buy a dedicated scanner and leave it at that. The logic here is I don't need to worry about a print mechanism crapping out, or waste ink pad count errors or some error rendering the whole thing useless. Is this harsh? Yes, but it's also very true-it doesn't make sense to invest in a crappy AIO from Goodwill just to scan, when I can borrow one or get a dedicated scanner and forget about the Inkjet mechanism breaking down. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 64-bit setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. This isn't possible with the Photosmart Premium printhead guide, as I have to spend money I really don't want to on an actual printer, and where I am I do not need to buy a dedicated scanner anytime soon, anyway. This is also true for my 10NES guide, as that only took 10-15 minutes to mod and was easy to write. Honestly, until this ignorance is visibly improved I don't plan on contributing "big" guides like this unless I can get the hardware for 0.00. I should also note my Goodwill doesn't overprice everything, but they seem to do it a lot from the times I actually go, which isn't much due to the price issue.
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+	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it and then delete it and go back to forgetting about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013-2014

	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers

-	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it but every time I do it seems like no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we ~~deserve~~ since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field, as ~~the 200$~~ makes up for the ~~nasty treatment~~. As I have mentioned before, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check ~~AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results~~. I have even had this more often than not, too: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help. I already know this will be very, very unpopular with volunteer techs as this already annoyed one to not move to ~~my third attempt at maintaining~~ a ~~clear~~ Facebook, but the ignorance volunteer techs get was ~~in part~~ my inspiration to start racking up certifications, so I can start ~~playing with~~ the ~~big boys~~ in ~~the industry in the times~~ volunteer support ignorance ~~aggravates~~ me, I can take a break from it ~~in the short term~~. Anyone in my position will probably get where I am coming from in regards to wanting to play with the big ones in the wake of this. I will not give up on free support, but I have experimented with other options like forums where I got responses within 2-3 days regarding a scanner issue, and in the Facebook group Low End Mac/PC, people will actually help you on issues when I can't even get help here at times.
+	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it but every time I do it seems like no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, which is member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we should get since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field, as that makes up for the mistreatment. As I have mentioned before, the current systems in place now don’t work, since one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check their post. I have even had this more often than not, too: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help. I already know this will be very, very unpopular with volunteer techs as this already annoyed one to not move to a new Facebook I made, but the ignorance volunteer techs get was part of my inspiration to start racking up certifications, so I can start making some money when the ignorance in volunteer support ignorance annoys me, so I can take a break from it. Anyone in my position will probably get where I am coming from in regards to wanting to play with the big ones in the wake of this. I will not give up on free support, but I have experimented with other options like forums where I got responses within 2-3 days regarding a scanner issue, and in the Facebook group Low End Mac/PC, people will actually help you on issues when I can't even get help here at times.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more work then dual enrollment in college.

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

	== update ==

	On June 6th, I have answered 3 questions as part of a test, and I have not had one looked back at by the OP yet and still remain unresolved. Of these questions, they were [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177429/HELP%3A+iPhone+5c+won%27t+turn+on%2C+NOT+water+damaged%2C+beeps+when+charging.#answer177542\|about 5c water damage related power issues], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177513/Battery%3A+good+or+bad#answer177523\|Kindle Fire HD battery testing], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177487/How+to+get+the+display+glas+off+of+the+LCD#answer177518\|iMac glass removal(fused iMac)], and [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/172587/hangs+at+setup+is+starting+windows#answer177509\|XP loading issues] and of all of these, I have no answer acceptances by the OP, and the XP one got one upvote and that has been it

	The first round of testing has proven this isn't fixed yet, and this is a 10 day old post, and 10 day old answers

	== update 2 ==

	I will say this about this post, since it is a positive change

	I asked if 11.89V on the 12V rail in a power supply is too much of a dip, which can be found [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/178855/Is+11.89V+on+the+12V+rail+considered+too+weak\|here] if anyone wants to see it, and I got a response the same day I posted it

	While I did not filly agree 11.89V is negligible, it is true that is minor so I accepted it, although I am sticking to my guns on this thing is scrap or a spare only and after I opened it, it's scrap most likely due to the build

	== update 3 ==

	Points revised and added

	== update 4 ==

	Take away feedback suggestion removed, grammar correction and spelling fixes

-	== update 5 ==
+	== update 5 ==
+
	Major grammar cleanup

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Sep 7, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

-	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit ~~and~~ the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer a issue.
+	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit. It also has to do with the fact I was always busy I didn’t have the time anymore, along with guide contribution ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough to curve the issue in my eyes at times. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer a issue. I should also say I will credit iFixit for trying, but you don't do enough to tame the issue over there and it's aggravating.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

-	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciate my support and not leave a question behind for others to flag the answer on, or even leave multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site ~~more and more~~ every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.
+	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciate my support and not leave a question behind for others to flag the answer on, or even leave multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel many of the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site, which gets worse every day that goes by, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

-	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 15 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to Laser printing. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, or the worst case scenario the inks are good but the printhead is bad, and to replace a HP 564 5 color printhhead is 80.00 new, and 20-30.00 for a used head with unknown usage numbers because my Goodwill sucks at pricing used electronics*, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases or it's a older model with dye ink that's thicker then a lot of other materials). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 5.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink or a printhead, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system entirely. So, I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say what I picked for now: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 64-bit setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the Photosmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the 10NES guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.
-
-	*My local Goodwill isn't always bad, since I got a LaserJet for 6.00 at mine one time but in most cases it's very overpriced
+	This is the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 14 or 15 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and got a LaserJet to replace it after the printhead failed for good. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to find one when my efforts will be ignored. The other issue is the only place that really sells used printers here is Goodwill, who also think 10-20.00 for a series of printer notorious for printhead failures are worth 10-20.00, or more. I have seen them go as high as 25.00 for Touchscreen printers. The other issue is they don't replace the ink so if the ink in the printer is dead I have to replace it, which overshadows the cost of a new printer with Inkjets the first time you need ink on a fair amount of Inkjet printers. The other problem is the printheads go bad with use, ink shorts it or someone was stupid enough to use pigment inks to refill the Vivera cartridge and the inks bind permanently in the head, thus ruining the printhead. To add insult to injury, HP charges about 80.00 for the 5 color(Photo Black) 564 printheds, so it doesn't make sense to replace the head; just dump the thing at Goodwill. You could go the eBay route for 20-40.00, but I don't like buying used printheads on the basis of you don't know how much use they had, if they have the leak problem the 564 heads are known for or if they will fail shortly after your eBay return window. There is too much uncertainty for me to buy an eBay 564 printhead. If this offends anyone go ahead and get offended, but I want assurance the part won't crap out anytime soon. The other issue is Goodwill pricing is so bad most of the time, they expect 10-20.00 for a used printer that needs ink or a printhead, or has other issues internally. The other issue is my Goodwill usually doesn't have a lot of HP Photosmarts but they have a lot of Canon, HP, Dell, Kodak, Lexmark and ink clogged C84/C88/C88+ printers. I am also not willing to spend the crazy money on a printer Goodwill asks, either-see one of my comments on the head cost and the problems with the 564 head as to why. The hard limit for any printer at Goodwill for me is 5.00, MAX. This is nothing more then buyer's remorse control for me with used printers in general. I also don't use Inkjets for more then a scanner anyway due to my LaserJet, in which case I use my dad's HP AIO for most of the time anyway. I just send the job to my LaserJet and print it that way. I can also settle on a dedicated scanner and not worry about a printer side failing to crash the scanner part with it, which I would actually use the most and leave it at that. I have 3 options here with this as I just laid out
+	* Buy a overpriced Goodwill printer
+	* Use my dad's HP AIO(Win7 x64 capable)
+	* Buy a dedicated scanner that works with Win7 x64
+	Personally, I would borrow my dad's printer to scan, or just buy a dedicated scanner and leave it at that, since I don't need to worry about a print mechanism crapping out, or waste ink pad count errors or some error rendering the whole thing useless. Is this harsh? Yes, but it's also very true-it doesn't make sense to invest in a crappy AIO from Goodwill just to scan, when I can borrow one or get a dedicated scanner and forget about the Inkjet mechanism breaking down. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 64-bit setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. This isn't possible with the Photosmart Premium printhead guide, as I have to spend money I really don't want to on an actual printer, and where I am I do not need to buy a dedicated scanner anytime soon, anyway. This is also true for my 10NES guide, as that only took 10-15 minutes to mod and was easy to write. Honestly, until this ignorance is visibly improved I don't plan on contributing "big" guides like this unless I can get the hardware for 0.00. I should also note my Goodwill doesn't overprice everything, but they seem to do it a lot from the times I actually go, which isn't much due to the price gouging issue.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013-2014

	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers

-	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like ~~the~~ no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned ~~in other parts~~, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results. I have even had this more often than not, too: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help. I already know this will be very, very unpopular with volunteer techs as this already annoyed one to not move to my third attempt at maintaining a clear Facebook, but the ignorance volunteer techs get was in part my inspiration to start racking up certifications, so I can start playing with the big boys in the industry in the times volunteer support ignorance aggravates me, ~~and~~ I ~~need~~ a break from it ~~all~~ in the short term. Anyone in my position will probably get where I am coming from in regards to wanting to play with the big ones in the wake of this. I will not give up on free support, but I have experimented with other options like forums where I got responses within 2-3 days regarding a scanner issue, and in the Facebook group Low End Mac/PC, people will actually help you on issues when I can't even get help here at times.
+	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it but every time I do it seems like no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field, as the 200$ makes up for the nasty treatment. As I have mentioned before, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results. I have even had this more often than not, too: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help. I already know this will be very, very unpopular with volunteer techs as this already annoyed one to not move to my third attempt at maintaining a clear Facebook, but the ignorance volunteer techs get was in part my inspiration to start racking up certifications, so I can start playing with the big boys in the industry in the times volunteer support ignorance aggravates me, I can take a break from it in the short term. Anyone in my position will probably get where I am coming from in regards to wanting to play with the big ones in the wake of this. I will not give up on free support, but I have experimented with other options like forums where I got responses within 2-3 days regarding a scanner issue, and in the Facebook group Low End Mac/PC, people will actually help you on issues when I can't even get help here at times.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more work then dual enrollment in college.

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

	== update ==

	On June 6th, I have answered 3 questions as part of a test, and I have not had one looked back at by the OP yet and still remain unresolved. Of these questions, they were [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177429/HELP%3A+iPhone+5c+won%27t+turn+on%2C+NOT+water+damaged%2C+beeps+when+charging.#answer177542\|about 5c water damage related power issues], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177513/Battery%3A+good+or+bad#answer177523\|Kindle Fire HD battery testing], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177487/How+to+get+the+display+glas+off+of+the+LCD#answer177518\|iMac glass removal(fused iMac)], and [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/172587/hangs+at+setup+is+starting+windows#answer177509\|XP loading issues] and of all of these, I have no answer acceptances by the OP, and the XP one got one upvote and that has been it

	The first round of testing has proven this isn't fixed yet, and this is a 10 day old post, and 10 day old answers

	== update 2 ==

	I will say this about this post, since it is a positive change

	I asked if 11.89V on the 12V rail in a power supply is too much of a dip, which can be found [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/178855/Is+11.89V+on+the+12V+rail+considered+too+weak\|here] if anyone wants to see it, and I got a response the same day I posted it

	While I did not filly agree 11.89V is negligible, it is true that is minor so I accepted it, although I am sticking to my guns on this thing is scrap or a spare only and after I opened it, it's scrap most likely due to the build

	== update 3 ==

	Points revised and added

	== update 4 ==
+
	Take away feedback suggestion removed, grammar correction and spelling fixes
+
+	== update 5 ==
+	Major grammar cleanup

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Aug 9, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer a issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciate my support and not leave a question behind for others to flag the answer on, or even leave multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 15 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to Laser printing. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, or the worst case scenario the inks are good but the printhead is bad, and to replace a HP 564 5 color printhhead is 80.00 new, and 20-30.00 for a used head with unknown usage numbers because my Goodwill sucks at pricing used electronics*, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases or it's a older model with dye ink that's thicker then a lot of other materials). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 5.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink or a printhead, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system entirely. So, I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say what I picked for now: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 64-bit setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the Photosmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the 10NES guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

	*My local Goodwill isn't always bad, since I got a LaserJet for 6.00 at mine one time but in most cases it's very overpriced

-	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.
+	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

-	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 ~~and~~ 2014
+	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013-2014

	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers

-	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we ~~want, and~~ deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results~~, as I have said in previous parts of this post~~. I have even had this more often than not ~~personally~~: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help. I already know this will be very, very ~~unpoular~~ with ~~voulenteer~~ techs as this already annoyed one to not move to my third attempt at maintaining a clear Facebook, but the ignorance ~~voulenteer~~ techs get was in part my inspiration to start racking up certifications, so I can start playing with the big boys in the industry in the times ~~voulenteer~~ support ignorance aggravates me, and I need a break from it all in the short term. Anyone in my position will probably get where I am coming from in regards to wanting to ~~go commercial~~ in this ~~industry~~.
+	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results. I have even had this more often than not, too: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help. I already know this will be very, very unpopular with volunteer techs as this already annoyed one to not move to my third attempt at maintaining a clear Facebook, but the ignorance volunteer techs get was in part my inspiration to start racking up certifications, so I can start playing with the big boys in the industry in the times volunteer support ignorance aggravates me, and I need a break from it all in the short term. Anyone in my position will probably get where I am coming from in regards to wanting to play with the big ones in the wake of this. I will not give up on free support, but I have experimented with other options like forums where I got responses within 2-3 days regarding a scanner issue, and in the Facebook group Low End Mac/PC, people will actually help you on issues when I can't even get help here at times.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

-	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college
+	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more work then dual enrollment in college.

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

	== update ==

	On June 6th, I have answered 3 questions as part of a test, and I have not had one looked back at by the OP yet and still remain unresolved. Of these questions, they were [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177429/HELP%3A+iPhone+5c+won%27t+turn+on%2C+NOT+water+damaged%2C+beeps+when+charging.#answer177542\|about 5c water damage related power issues], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177513/Battery%3A+good+or+bad#answer177523\|Kindle Fire HD battery testing], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177487/How+to+get+the+display+glas+off+of+the+LCD#answer177518\|iMac glass removal(fused iMac)], and [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/172587/hangs+at+setup+is+starting+windows#answer177509\|XP loading issues] and of all of these, I have no answer acceptances by the OP, and the XP one got one upvote and that has been it

-	The first round of testing has proven this ~~is not solved~~, and this is a 10 day old post, and 10 day old answers
+	The first round of testing has proven this isn't fixed yet, and this is a 10 day old post, and 10 day old answers

	== update 2 ==

	I will say this about this post, since it is a positive change

	I asked if 11.89V on the 12V rail in a power supply is too much of a dip, which can be found [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/178855/Is+11.89V+on+the+12V+rail+considered+too+weak\|here] if anyone wants to see it, and I got a response the same day I posted it

	While I did not filly agree 11.89V is negligible, it is true that is minor so I accepted it, although I am sticking to my guns on this thing is scrap or a spare only and after I opened it, it's scrap most likely due to the build

	== update 3 ==
+
	Points revised and added
+
+	== update 4 ==
+	Take away feedback suggestion removed, grammar correction and spelling fixes

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Aug 4, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer a issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciate my support and not leave a question behind for others to flag the answer on, or even leave multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 15 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to Laser printing. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, or the worst case scenario the inks are good but the printhead is bad, and to replace a HP 564 5 color printhhead is 80.00 new, and 20-30.00 for a used head with unknown usage numbers because my Goodwill sucks at pricing used electronics*, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases or it's a older model with dye ink that's thicker then a lot of other materials). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 5.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink or a printhead, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system entirely. So, I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say what I picked for now: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 64-bit setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the Photosmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the 10NES guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.
+
	*My local Goodwill isn't always bad, since I got a LaserJet for 6.00 at mine one time but in most cases it's very overpriced

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers

-	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help.
+	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help. I already know this will be very, very unpoular with voulenteer techs as this already annoyed one to not move to my third attempt at maintaining a clear Facebook, but the ignorance voulenteer techs get was in part my inspiration to start racking up certifications, so I can start playing with the big boys in the industry in the times voulenteer support ignorance aggravates me, and I need a break from it all in the short term. Anyone in my position will probably get where I am coming from in regards to wanting to go commercial in this industry.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

	== update ==

	On June 6th, I have answered 3 questions as part of a test, and I have not had one looked back at by the OP yet and still remain unresolved. Of these questions, they were [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177429/HELP%3A+iPhone+5c+won%27t+turn+on%2C+NOT+water+damaged%2C+beeps+when+charging.#answer177542\|about 5c water damage related power issues], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177513/Battery%3A+good+or+bad#answer177523\|Kindle Fire HD battery testing], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177487/How+to+get+the+display+glas+off+of+the+LCD#answer177518\|iMac glass removal(fused iMac)], and [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/172587/hangs+at+setup+is+starting+windows#answer177509\|XP loading issues] and of all of these, I have no answer acceptances by the OP, and the XP one got one upvote and that has been it

	The first round of testing has proven this is not solved, and this is a 10 day old post, and 10 day old answers

	== update 2 ==

	I will say this about this post, since it is a positive change

	I asked if 11.89V on the 12V rail in a power supply is too much of a dip, which can be found [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/178855/Is+11.89V+on+the+12V+rail+considered+too+weak\|here] if anyone wants to see it, and I got a response the same day I posted it

	While I did not filly agree 11.89V is negligible, it is true that is minor so I accepted it, although I am sticking to my guns on this thing is scrap or a spare only and after I opened it, it's scrap most likely due to the build
+
+	== update 3 ==
+	Points revised and added

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Aug 4, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

-	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer ~~is an~~ issue.
+	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer a issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciate my support and not leave a question behind for others to flag the answer on, or even leave multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

-	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, or the worst case scenario the inks are good but the printhead is bad, and to replace a HP 564 5 color printhhead is 80.00 new, and 20-30.00 for a used head with unknown usage numbers because my Goodwill sucks at pricing used electronics, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases, or it's a older model with dye ink that's thicker then a lot of other materials). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 5.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink or a printhead, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system entirely. So, I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say what I picked for now: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 64-bit setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the Photosmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.
+	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 15 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to Laser printing. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, or the worst case scenario the inks are good but the printhead is bad, and to replace a HP 564 5 color printhhead is 80.00 new, and 20-30.00 for a used head with unknown usage numbers because my Goodwill sucks at pricing used electronics*, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases or it's a older model with dye ink that's thicker then a lot of other materials). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 5.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink or a printhead, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system entirely. So, I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say what I picked for now: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 64-bit setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the Photosmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the 10NES guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.
+	*My local Goodwill isn't always bad, since I got a LaserJet for 6.00 at mine one time but in most cases it's very overpriced

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers

	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

	== update ==

	On June 6th, I have answered 3 questions as part of a test, and I have not had one looked back at by the OP yet and still remain unresolved. Of these questions, they were [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177429/HELP%3A+iPhone+5c+won%27t+turn+on%2C+NOT+water+damaged%2C+beeps+when+charging.#answer177542\|about 5c water damage related power issues], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177513/Battery%3A+good+or+bad#answer177523\|Kindle Fire HD battery testing], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177487/How+to+get+the+display+glas+off+of+the+LCD#answer177518\|iMac glass removal(fused iMac)], and [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/172587/hangs+at+setup+is+starting+windows#answer177509\|XP loading issues] and of all of these, I have no answer acceptances by the OP, and the XP one got one upvote and that has been it

	The first round of testing has proven this is not solved, and this is a 10 day old post, and 10 day old answers

	== update 2 ==

	I will say this about this post, since it is a positive change

	I asked if 11.89V on the 12V rail in a power supply is too much of a dip, which can be found [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/178855/Is+11.89V+on+the+12V+rail+considered+too+weak\|here] if anyone wants to see it, and I got a response the same day I posted it

	While I did not filly agree 11.89V is negligible, it is true that is minor so I accepted it, although I am sticking to my guns on this thing is scrap or a spare only and after I opened it, it's scrap most likely due to the build

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Aug 4, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciate my support and not leave a question behind for others to flag the answer on, or even leave multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

-	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, ~~since~~ my Goodwill sucks at pricing ~~printers~~, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases, or it's a older model with dye ink that's thicker then a lot of other materials). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system entirely. So, I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say what I picked for now: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows ~~7/8.x~~ setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the ~~PhotoSmart~~ Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.
+	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, or the worst case scenario the inks are good but the printhead is bad, and to replace a HP 564 5 color printhhead is 80.00 new, and 20-30.00 for a used head with unknown usage numbers because my Goodwill sucks at pricing used electronics, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases, or it's a older model with dye ink that's thicker then a lot of other materials). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 5.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink or a printhead, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system entirely. So, I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say what I picked for now: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 64-bit setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the Photosmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers

	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

	== update ==

	On June 6th, I have answered 3 questions as part of a test, and I have not had one looked back at by the OP yet and still remain unresolved. Of these questions, they were [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177429/HELP%3A+iPhone+5c+won%27t+turn+on%2C+NOT+water+damaged%2C+beeps+when+charging.#answer177542\|about 5c water damage related power issues], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177513/Battery%3A+good+or+bad#answer177523\|Kindle Fire HD battery testing], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177487/How+to+get+the+display+glas+off+of+the+LCD#answer177518\|iMac glass removal(fused iMac)], and [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/172587/hangs+at+setup+is+starting+windows#answer177509\|XP loading issues] and of all of these, I have no answer acceptances by the OP, and the XP one got one upvote and that has been it

	The first round of testing has proven this is not solved, and this is a 10 day old post, and 10 day old answers

	== update 2 ==
+
	I will say this about this post, since it is a positive change
+
	I asked if 11.89V on the 12V rail in a power supply is too much of a dip, which can be found [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/178855/Is+11.89V+on+the+12V+rail+considered+too+weak\|here] if anyone wants to see it, and I got a response the same day I posted it
+
	While I did not filly agree 11.89V is negligible, it is true that is minor so I accepted it, although I am sticking to my guns on this thing is scrap or a spare only and after I opened it, it's scrap most likely due to the build

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 20, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciate my support and not leave a question behind for others to flag the answer on, or even leave multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases, or it's a older model with dye ink that's thicker then a lot of other materials). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system entirely. So, I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say what I picked for now: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers

	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

	== update ==
+
	On June 6th, I have answered 3 questions as part of a test, and I have not had one looked back at by the OP yet and still remain unresolved. Of these questions, they were [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177429/HELP%3A+iPhone+5c+won%27t+turn+on%2C+NOT+water+damaged%2C+beeps+when+charging.#answer177542\|about 5c water damage related power issues], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177513/Battery%3A+good+or+bad#answer177523\|Kindle Fire HD battery testing], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177487/How+to+get+the+display+glas+off+of+the+LCD#answer177518\|iMac glass removal(fused iMac)], and [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/172587/hangs+at+setup+is+starting+windows#answer177509\|XP loading issues] and of all of these, I have no answer acceptances by the OP, and the XP one got one upvote and that has been it
+
	The first round of testing has proven this is not solved, and this is a 10 day old post, and 10 day old answers
+
+	== update 2 ==
+	I will say this about this post, since it is a positive change
+	I asked if 11.89V on the 12V rail in a power supply is too much of a dip, which can be found [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/178855/Is+11.89V+on+the+12V+rail+considered+too+weak\|here] if anyone wants to see it, and I got a response the same day I posted it
+	While I did not filly agree 11.89V is negligible, it is true that is minor so I accepted it, although I am sticking to my guns on this thing is scrap or a spare only and after I opened it, it's scrap most likely due to the build

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 16, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciate my support and not leave a question behind for others to flag the answer on, or even leave multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases, or it's a older model with dye ink that's thicker then a lot of other materials). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system entirely. So, I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say what I picked for now: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers

	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.
+
+	== update ==
+	On June 6th, I have answered 3 questions as part of a test, and I have not had one looked back at by the OP yet and still remain unresolved. Of these questions, they were [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177429/HELP%3A+iPhone+5c+won%27t+turn+on%2C+NOT+water+damaged%2C+beeps+when+charging.#answer177542\|about 5c water damage related power issues], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177513/Battery%3A+good+or+bad#answer177523\|Kindle Fire HD battery testing], [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/177487/How+to+get+the+display+glas+off+of+the+LCD#answer177518\|iMac glass removal(fused iMac)], and [https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/172587/hangs+at+setup+is+starting+windows#answer177509\|XP loading issues] and of all of these, I have no answer acceptances by the OP, and the XP one got one upvote and that has been it
+	The first round of testing has proven this is not solved, and this is a 10 day old post, and 10 day old answers

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

-	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they ~~appreciated~~ my support and not leave a question, or even multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.
+	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciate my support and not leave a question behind for others to flag the answer on, or even leave multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

-	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases, or it's a older model with dye ink that's thicker then a lot of other materials). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system. I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say what I picked for now: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.
+	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases, or it's a older model with dye ink that's thicker then a lot of other materials). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system entirely. So, I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say what I picked for now: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers

	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

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Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave a question, or even multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

-	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases, or it's a older model with dye ink that's thicker then a lot of other materials). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system. I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say ~~why~~: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.
+	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases, or it's a older model with dye ink that's thicker then a lot of other materials). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system. I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say what I picked for now: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers

	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave a question, or even multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

-	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system. I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.
+	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases, or it's a older model with dye ink that's thicker then a lot of other materials). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system. I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers

	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave a question, or even multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

-	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway. The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and ~~woukd~~ at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system. I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.
+	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway(and in the case of a Epson, the DuraBrite Ultra ink clogged most cases). The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and would at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system. I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers

	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

-	It has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer is an issue.
+	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave a question, or even multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway. The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and woukd at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system. I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers

	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

-	It has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it no longer is an issue.
+	It has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it's no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave a question, or even multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway. The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and woukd at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system. I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers

	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave a question, or even multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway. The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and woukd at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system. I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers

-	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since ~~most~~ of us are volunteers here and because of that, we expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help.
+	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since the vast majority of us are volunteers here and because of that, we will always expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets when working in the field. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help.

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave a question, or even multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway. The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and woukd at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system. I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint

-	[image\|93555\|align=~~left~~]
+	[image\|93555\|align=center]

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014
+
	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers
+
	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since most of us are volunteers here and because of that, we expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help.
-

	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave a question, or even multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway. The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and woukd at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system. I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.
+
	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint
-	[image\|93555]
+
+	[image\|93555\|align=left]
+
	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014
+	•Second issue: User ignorance in answers
+	From all of the years I have been here, I have always noticed one thing a lot around here, and that is very few people regularly check the Answers forum and actually bother to answer any questions. I occasionally check it, but every time I do it seems like the no answers posts outweigh the ones people actually do answer. Why do I feel this is a problem? Well, it boils down to my first point, member ignorance a lot of the time for various reasons including what Mayer has put in the replies regarding thinking everyone works at iFixit, but in reality the list of those who do and don’t is much more broken up then it appears. I can also completely understand why people don’t post in Answers a lot, and very few people bother to take time out of their day to check since I do it too, and the reason I believe people do(myself included) is we don’t get the recognition we want, and deserve since most of us are volunteers here and because of that, we expect more then what someone who is getting paid 75$/hour in IT gets. As I have mentioned in other parts, the current systems in place now don’t work-one eMail isn’t enough to curve the issue where people forget to check AT ALL-you have to take more drastic measures to get results, as I have said in previous parts of this post. I have even had this more often than not personally: I asked how to fix something, or some trick I am missing and of course it gets ignored 9 times out of 10. Yeah, great way to get users to “interact” with Answers, by letting ignorance shine more often than people who try and help.

-	• Second issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)
+
+	• Third issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

-	• ~~Third~~ issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)
+	• Fourth issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave a question, or even multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway. The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and woukd at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system. I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.
-
+	Here is what it could look like, as I have crudely edited in MS Paint
+	[image\|93555]
	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	• Second issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Third issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

-	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money is a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.
+	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money was a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

-	It ~~also~~ has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it no longer is an issue.
+	It has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it no longer is an issue.

-	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the ignorance, a free solution :-)
+	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the Answers ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

-	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave a question, or even multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, ~~an employer~~ or ~~another~~ person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP ~~up in the air~~, even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.
+	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave a question, or even multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP be after they got what they needed(if they did try and fix it), without accepting a answer even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

-	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had ~~basically what I would dare call~~ no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have very limited incentive to, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least ~~5-10~~.00, ~~or even more~~ since my ~~local~~ Goodwill ~~seems~~ to ~~overprice~~ used ~~AiO printers all the time and hasn’t had what I needed, yet?~~ I would probably only ~~realistically~~ scan with it, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software, and Adobe Reader, or ~~even~~ buy a ~~cheap~~ scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used. I can borrow my dad’s printer or spend my own money on one, put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or ~~buying~~ a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.
+	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had almost no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have a very limited incentive to at best, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 10-15.00+ for a printer that needs ink 9 times out of 10 at Goodwill to find the ink is going to overshadow the cost of the used printer at least 5 times over, since my Goodwill sucks at pricing printers, especially when most I test there are dumped not because of a paper path issue, but because it's out of ink, or at least very close to being empty and the vast majority of Goodwill rejects are Canon, Epson and Kodak and not HP anyway. The fact is I would have to spend way more on it then I am willing to, when I am not spending more then 10.00 on one because I have to count on needing ink, and woukd at least like to limit the regret I probably got into with a used printer. I would probably only scan with it anyway, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software and Adobe Reader, or buy a dedicated scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used and not even think about a printing system. I can either borrow my dad’s printer, spend my own money on one and have to put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buy a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

-	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point.
+	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point. Another option would be to have a Users and Staff tab, to help signal iFixit is community run, too.

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	• Second issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Third issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money is a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the ignorance, a free solution :-)

-	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it.
+	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it. No, this isn't about how iFixit treats users but the members who ask questions to ignore them

-	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave ~~this~~ question hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, an employer or another person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time ~~and~~ also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, ~~and~~ doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time on iFixit. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP up in the air, even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.
+	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave a question, or even multiple questions hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, an employer or another person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time, but also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time. This is especially true with iFixit-I feel the users here do not appreciate the time I give to the site more and more every day, and at some point I got sick of the ignorance. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP up in the air, even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

-	This is also the ~~exact~~ reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had basically what I would dare call no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have very limited incentive to, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 5-10.00, or even more since my local Goodwill seems to overprice used printers all the time and hasn’t had what I needed, yet? I would probably only realistically scan with it, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software, and Adobe Reader, or even buy a cheap scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used. I can borrow my dad’s printer or spend my own money on one, put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buying a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for, and ~~don~~'t need ~~to spend time cleaning~~, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.
+	This is also the reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had basically what I would dare call no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have very limited incentive to, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 5-10.00, or even more since my local Goodwill seems to overprice used AiO printers all the time and hasn’t had what I needed, yet? I would probably only realistically scan with it, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software, and Adobe Reader, or even buy a cheap scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used. I can borrow my dad’s printer or spend my own money on one, put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buying a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for and that doesn't need a repair, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10-15 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

-	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point.
+	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem, but I know it will not cure the entire problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point.

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	• Second issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

-	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem.
+	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem. To be honest, it felt like more then dual enrollment in college

	• Third issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

-	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet ~~here~~, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.
+	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

-	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I do take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money is ~~really~~ a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.
+	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money is a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it no longer is an issue.

-	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues
+	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues and for the ignorance, a free solution :-)

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it.

-	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave this question hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf, since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, an ~~ex-~~employer or ~~any other~~ person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time and also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, ~~would you help them or~~ would you help ~~the other person who actually appreciates your time~~? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, and doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time on iFixit. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP up in the air, even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.
+	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave this question hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, an employer or another person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time and also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, who would you help? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, and doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time on iFixit. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP up in the air, even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

-	This is also the exact reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had basically what I would dare call no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have very limited incentive to, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 5-10.00, or even more since my local Goodwill seems to overprice used printers all the time and hasn’t had what I needed, yet? I would probably only realistically scan with it, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software, and Adobe Reader, or even buy a cheap scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used. I can borrow my dad’s printer or spend my own money on one, put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buying a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for, and spend time cleaning or cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also ~~very~~ true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10 minute job to perform and easy to write for.
+	This is also the exact reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had basically what I would dare call no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have very limited incentive to, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 5-10.00, or even more since my local Goodwill seems to overprice used printers all the time and hasn’t had what I needed, yet? I would probably only realistically scan with it, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software, and Adobe Reader, or even buy a cheap scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used. I can borrow my dad’s printer or spend my own money on one, put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buying a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for, and don't need to spend time cleaning, or a cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10 minute job to perform and easy to write for, at least until I feel this ignorance and what I would call mistreatment of my time I am giving away is over.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point.

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

-	• Second issue: Tech school
+	• Second issue: Tech school(fact-not a issue)

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem.

-	• Third issue: Certifications
+	• Third issue: Certifications(fact-not a issue)

-	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to ~~study my !@# off~~ to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet here, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.
+	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to work on other things like crazy to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet here, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

-	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since ~~it spanned 3 pages in Word, and 1,491 words~~.
+	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since this is so long.

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I do take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money is really a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it.

	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave this question hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf, since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, an ex-employer or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time and also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, would you help them or would you help the other person who actually appreciates your time? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, and doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time on iFixit. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP up in the air, even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

-	This is also the exact reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had basically what I would dare call no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have very limited incentive to, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 5-10.00, or even more since my local Goodwill seems to overprice used printers all the time and hasn’t had what I needed, yet? I would probably only realistically scan with it, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software, and Adobe Reader, or even buy a cheap scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used. I can borrow my dad’s printer or spend my own money on one, put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buying a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for, and spend time cleaning or cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also very true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. ~~Well, truth is I may have one scored~~ to ~~call my own, but it isn’t a Photosmart;it’s a Deskjet printer~~ and ~~it needs ink. It will not work~~ for ~~the printhead guide~~.
+	This is also the exact reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had basically what I would dare call no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have very limited incentive to, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 5-10.00, or even more since my local Goodwill seems to overprice used printers all the time and hasn’t had what I needed, yet? I would probably only realistically scan with it, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software, and Adobe Reader, or even buy a cheap scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used. I can borrow my dad’s printer or spend my own money on one, put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buying a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for, and spend time cleaning or cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also very true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Same with the NES NES10 guide; 10 minute job to perform and easy to write for.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point.

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	• Second issue: Tech school

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem.

	• Third issue: Certifications

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to study my !@# off to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet here, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since it spanned 3 pages in Word, and 1,491 words.

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

-	A bit of thought(and advice) for the ~~iFixit ignorance~~
+	A bit of thought(and advice) for the ignorance in Answers, etc...

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I do take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money is really a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues

	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it.
+
	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave this question hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf, since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, an ex-employer or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time and also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, would you help them or would you help the other person who actually appreciates your time? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, and doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time on iFixit. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP up in the air, even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

	This is also the exact reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had basically what I would dare call no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have very limited incentive to, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 5-10.00, or even more since my local Goodwill seems to overprice used printers all the time and hasn’t had what I needed, yet? I would probably only realistically scan with it, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software, and Adobe Reader, or even buy a cheap scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used. I can borrow my dad’s printer or spend my own money on one, put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buying a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for, and spend time cleaning or cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also very true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Well, truth is I may have one scored to call my own, but it isn’t a Photosmart;it’s a Deskjet printer and it needs ink. It will not work for the printhead guide.

	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point.

	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

	• Second issue: Tech school

	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem.

	• Third issue: Certifications

	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to study my !@# off to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet here, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since it spanned 3 pages in Word, and 1,491 words.

Discussion Topic:

Yes

Status:

open

Jun 6, 2014

Edit by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the iFixit ignorance

Text:

	Hello iFixit,

-	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be ~~‘’’~~extremely blunt~~’’’~~ due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.
+	I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be '''extremely blunt''' due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

	Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I do take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money is really a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

	It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it no longer is an issue.

	I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues

-	• First problem: How ‘’’nobody’’’ seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for ‘’’years’’’, if you want to be honest about it
+	• First problem: How '''nobody''' seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for '''years''', if you want to be honest about it.
+	Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave this question hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf, since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, an ex-employer or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time and also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, would you help them or would you help the other person who actually appreciates your time? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, and doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time on iFixit. This is why I am '''not''' active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP up in the air, even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

-	~~o Call me crazy,~~ ~~greedy or any other name~~ in ~~the book but when~~ I ~~give my time away~~ to ~~help someone else out, I expect~~ the ~~people I give my time away~~ to ~~at least respond~~ to ~~show they appreciated my support and not leave~~ this ~~question hanging for months, or even years for that matter as~~ I have ~~seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf, since~~ the ~~person clearly forgot about the question~~. I ~~don’t know about you,~~ but ~~if you were treated like this by a friend, an ex-employer or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time and also had friends who appreciate your time~~ at the same time, ~~would you help them~~ or ~~would you help~~ the ~~other person who actually appreciates your time~~? ~~If your head is in the right place, you~~ would probably ~~help~~ the ~~person who appreciates your time~~, and ~~doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap~~, or that ~~nobody cares about~~ my ~~time~~ on ~~iFixit~~. This is why I ~~am ‘’’not’’’ active on iFixit anymore~~, since ~~I feel nobody appreciates my time~~ and ~~decides~~ to ~~ignore~~ the ~~question anyway and leave the people who attempted~~ to ~~help the OP up in the air, even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly~~ don’t work.
+	This is also the exact reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had basically what I would dare call no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have very limited incentive to, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 5-10.00, or even more since my local Goodwill seems to overprice used printers all the time and hasn’t had what I needed, yet? I would probably only realistically scan with it, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software, and Adobe Reader, or even buy a cheap scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used. I can borrow my dad’s printer or spend my own money on one, put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buying a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for, and spend time cleaning or cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also very true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Well, truth is I may have one scored to call my own, but it isn’t a Photosmart;it’s a Deskjet printer and it needs ink. It will not work for the printhead guide.

-	~~o This is~~ the ~~exact reason~~ I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this ~~very~~ day ~~I have had basically what I would dare call no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer~~. I ~~will find one~~ at ~~some point but~~ at the ~~same time I have very limited incentive to, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again~~, and probably having to pay at least 5-10.00, or even more since my local Goodwill seems to overprice used printers all the time and hasn’t had what I needed, yet? I would probably only realistically scan with it, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software, and Adobe Reader, or even buy a cheap scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used. I can borrow my dad’s printer or spend my own money on one, put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buying a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just ~~say why: use the~~ one I don’t ~~have to pay for~~, and ~~spend time cleaning or cheap dedicated scanner.~~ ~~This is very harsh, but it’s also very true~~ at the ~~same time~~. ~~This is~~ also ~~why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10~~ ~~minutes~~, ~~such~~ as the ~~LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide~~, ~~since that only took a few minutes~~ to ~~do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with~~ the ~~PhotoSmart Premium guide~~, ~~plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup~~ at ~~home~~. ~~Well, truth is I may have one scored to call my own~~, but it ~~isn’t a Photosmart;it’s a Deskjet printer and it needs ink. It~~ will ~~not work for the printhead guide~~.
+	How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point.

-	~~o How do~~ I feel ~~this issue can be fixed?~~ ~~Well~~, I ~~don’t think one eMail reminder works well,~~ ~~since people~~ will ~~skim it,~~ ~~delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end,~~ as I have ~~mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most,~~ and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point.
+	If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

-	o If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014
+	• Second issue: Tech school

-	~~• Tech~~ school
+	Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem.

-	o Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem.
+	• Third issue: Certifications

-	~~• Certifications~~
+	Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to study my !@# off to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet here, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

-	o Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large\|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to study my !@# off to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet here, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.
-
-	o Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since it spanned 3 pages in Word, and 1,491 words.
+	Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since it spanned 3 pages in Word, and 1,491 words.

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Jun 6, 2014

Original post by: Nick

Title:

A bit of thought(and advice) for the iFixit ignorance

Text:

Hello iFixit,

I have a feeling most of you have noticed here my activity had dropped on iFixit to a standstill as of late, and because it pretty much dropped to what I consider how people who have a job, kids and a family pay attention to their Facebook accounts if you will(basically almost never, if they actually do anymore), I feel I should at least attempt to explain why. The section on Answers and guide ignorance is going to be ‘’’extremely blunt’’’ due to the nature of the problem, and I ask this not be softened.

Let me clarify this now: it has nothing to do with IT or making money fixing other people’s problems and getting paid, or even freebies from secrecy-I have no problem giving my time away to others who would need it for free, so let’s get this out of the way now so I don’t have to settle such drama in the replies to this post. The reason I do take freebies is user ignorance, since they won’t attempt a repair and will probably throw it out. In this case, the freebie issue comes into play, but only if I can tell it will happen. Money is really a non-issue, since I had trouble getting paid work uncertified anyway, and now that I am this will likely become less of an issue as time goes by and it’s more known I have a certification to my name.

It also has nothing to do with being certified and having the certificate to prove it, or getting out of tech school as one of the highschool kids there who knew a good chunk of the material-it has to do with other issues entirely, and that is how people respond to questions on iFixit and the fact I was always so busy I didn’t have the time anymore, guide ignorance and how iFixit doesn’t do enough. I will say the highschool dual enrollment played a huge part before, but it no longer is an issue.

I am going to go over all of my reasons individually, and explain what I plan on doing with these issues

•    First problem: How ‘’’nobody’’’ seems to mark the answers on iFixit who solved the problem, even though this has been an issue for ‘’’years’’’, if you want to be honest about it

o    Call me crazy, greedy or any other name in the book but when I give my time away to help someone else out, I expect the people I give my time away to at least respond to show they appreciated my support and not leave this question hanging for months, or even years for that matter as I have seen my answers accepted by other people on many occasions who marked it on my behalf, since the person clearly forgot about the question. I don’t know about you, but if you were treated like this by a friend, an ex-employer or any other person you could name and they didn’t appreciate your time and also had friends who appreciate your time at the same time, would you help them or would you help the other person who actually appreciates your time? If your head is in the right place, you would probably help the person who appreciates your time, and doesn’t ignore you and make you feel like crap, or that nobody cares about my time on iFixit. This is why I am ‘’’not’’’ active on iFixit anymore, since I feel nobody appreciates my time and decides to ignore the question anyway and leave the people who attempted to help the OP up in the air, even with previous solutions iFixit has attempted which clearly don’t work.

o    This is the exact reason I also do not put out a lot of guides and delay many of them so long at times; for example I am working on cleaning up one guide I made at 16 in regards to a Photosmart Premium printhead cleaning I am now fixing up 4 years later; since few people seemed to appreciate the guide for what it was then, and still continues to be a problem to this very day I have had basically what I would dare call no incentive to find the same printer I had before I got sick of inkjet printers, and went to a Laser printer. I will find one at some point but at the same time I have very limited incentive to, when I know full well my efforts will likely go ignored, so why bother spending my time finding that printer again, and probably having to pay at least 5-10.00, or even more since my local Goodwill seems to overprice used printers all the time and hasn’t had what I needed, yet? I would probably only realistically scan with it, which I can also use my dad’s AIO to do anyway and print it to my Laser printer, since I can do this with the HP Scan Software, and Adobe Reader, or even buy a cheap scanner that will work in Windows 7 and Mac used. I can borrow my dad’s printer or spend my own money on one, put the effort into fixing the one I got for the guide, take pictures and try and explain how to do it without totaling the printer, or buying a cheap dedicated scanner that works in Windows 7? Tell me what makes more sense when you expect ignorance. I will just say why: use the one I don’t have to pay for, and spend time cleaning or cheap dedicated scanner. This is very harsh, but it’s also very true at the same time. This is also why I limit my guides to tasks I can perform in 5-10 minutes, such as the LaserJet 1012 Windows 7/8.x setup guide, since that only took a few minutes to do, and probably 10-15 minutes to write, edit and publish. I can’t do this with the PhotoSmart Premium guide, plus I have to spend actual money I don’t realistically have to in my current setup at home. Well, truth is I may have one scored to call my own, but it isn’t a Photosmart;it’s a Deskjet printer and it needs ink.  It will not work for the printhead guide.

o    How do I feel this issue can be fixed? Well, I don’t think one eMail reminder works well, since people will skim it, delete it and they will forget about the question again and it will be ignored for years on end, as I have mentioned is a problem to this day. I feel at least 3 eMail reminders are required at the most, and not just one; I don’t think 3 eMails is annoying, and would probably be persistent enough to get them to look at the question and actually mark an answer as accepted. I would also dare say take a small amount of reputation away from people who ignore a question for at least 2 months until they mark it with an accepted answer, and keep doing it till they mark one response as the fix. This may sound crude, but I feel this will probably work to curve the problem. Keep the pull 1-3 points, at the highest 3 points. Small amount, but it will get noticed at some point.

o    If iFixit implements a solution to this problem, I will pop in Answers randomly at unannounced times, answer at least 1-2 questions at a given moment I feel will see if it helped; if it does, I will become more active and if not I will remain as inactive as I have become as of 2013 and 2014

•    Tech school

o    Out of all these factors(and certifications), these are the big ones. I simply did not have the time I did before I dual enrolled in tech school during High School, since I was basically doing as much, if not more than a dual enrolled kid in my school doing college level work then. I have since graduated, so this is less of a problem.

•    Certifications

o    Recently, I got one of my first [http://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/slHrvQ2VpRIuaWg2.large|certications] I can say I have in my name, which I had to study my !@# off to get so I didn’t have time to go on iFixit and do a whole lot with it. I am NOT out of the woods yet here, as I have plans to work on another certification since I finished this one.

o    Well, this is it for this what I would call rant at some parts, and I hope some people take it to heart who actually read this and think about it, possibly change and probably help come up with a solution to the problems I have mentioned above. I would like to thank you indirectly if you read this up to the end, since it spanned 3 pages in Word, and 1,491 words.

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