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No motivation for being on ifixit.

I'm gonna be taking an extended temporary break. as you may have noticed I have been offline for the majority of the past month or so.

here's why, I've been busy a lot recently but the main reason is I'm lacking the motivation to answer questions on ifixit all of the sudden. most likely this leave will be a few years like the last one from when I first joined ifixit. (2015) (2 year break) I cannot promise I will be back as I may forget.

If anyone has any ideas to regain motivation for ifixit, that would be great.

Thanks guys.

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Thanks for your responses guys!

@oldturkey03 made it clear that you cannot really help motivate another person, so I am going to go with @nick 's suggestion of a break. maybe a month or two. but another problem is, I go to a summer camp for the whole summer (plus or minus a week or two) and most likely I will lose interest after the summer until maybe 2019, as I will either forget, or have other things to do. (putting my money on forgetting) I've been thinking about whats going to happen after summer and have no real solution for it. I guess its luck of the draw in these circumstances.

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@captainsnowball wish I could join you for summer camp! I went every year when my son was in Boy Scouts.

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@captainsnowball only you know what motivates you. We do not know what makes you tick. I dug this up from a couple of years ago and it shows you what works for me:

"For me it all comes down to this. Knowledge is power,so if I posses some knowledge about a certain topic, and I create a guide, or answer a specific question, I share this knowledge. This will enable that particular person to be empowered.To be empowered to accomplish a specific task, provides one with a sense of fulfilment, accomplishment and pride. In other words, it makes you feel good about yourself (bet that works on the dopamine receptors in our brains:-). Now, and this is an important step, if there is no feedback, this feeling will eventually dissipate and participation will decrease. Just like with anything else in this world, it pays to say thank you, or on here, to upvote and/or to accept an answer, shows appreciation. We all have to be in agreement, it is a great feeling to be appreciated. I am convinced it makes a difference, at least to one person. The one that asked the question and got an answer that worked. Or for the person that needed a guide to fix his/her device and found it on here, it sure makes a difference." This is what keeps me going. The appreciation by the OP, my colleagues or just some stranger that tells me " Hey, thanks, worked for me"

The iFixit staff cannot motivate you, nor can your colleagues or your friends. We can only reward you for the milestones you achieve. You have to find the motivation within yourself. Determine what is important to you, set priorities and goals. You need to find and establish your purpose and then set out on the journey to accomplish your mission. There will be peaks and valleys but this journey will define who you'll become.

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@oldturkey03 someone told me they had posted the videos they did of Dan, you and me on why we did this. I never got a notification nor have I see them but if you know them it might help.

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@mayer https://youtu.be/a8sfohsQQK0 and I still think I sound like Elmer Fudd

:-D

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@oldturkey03 I'm a bit stiff looking, and the camera is a bit low given my height ;-}

@captainsnowball - Aiden, OT said it!

You need to find your own motivation and reward in everything you do in life. I get it from solving someone's problem and get the reward of keeping a system out of a landfill.

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If the problem is the lack of users accepting answers and acknowledging that you posted something there, then the best advice I can give you is to avoid devices that have a high rate of OP's that abandon their questions. You will need to figure out what has this problem for the questions you answer, since you may answer different questions then someone else. With that being said there's always going to me a mortality rate in any device category when it comes to this, so this should only be reserved for devices that have a higher then normal rate of abandoned questions. It has affected me so much I've come to accept it to the extent I find reasonable. Even questions I post in Answers are affected by non-response because of it. In other cases I needed to try the fix blind and accept my own answer.

I've forgotten to accept answers on some of my own questions myself, so I've done it before. I usually end up going back and getting around to it in the majority of cases but there have been times I forgot so long someone had to step in.

I would focus on something else that isn't as troublesome and "depressing" until you find a way to accept many OP's don't accept the answers others provide. A short term break may help, but a long term one isn't likely to help you much.

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I agree. The reputation score is kind of overdone by so many forums at this point. I’m sure if this got iFixit’s attention, they’d come up with something awesome!

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It's not perfect, but it mostly works.

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other Forums seem to be more cryptic.

"GOD user"

"MASTER user"

"somewhat experienced user"

while ifixit is like

"999 rep"

if thats what you mean.

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