Is the IFixit community hostile to new users?
Hi,
I recently joined the IFixit community after discovering some of their toolkits in a shop.
I’m a 16 year old hobbyist, and I have recently put together my own PC.
I want to break into the community, and I thought that helping other people would be a fun way to gain some more experience. I will admit that I have made some bad posts, but I have redacted them after people have called me out. I also edited my solution to one user question when @mayer called me out.
However, I later found out that he downvoted every single one of my posts and told me I had no idea what I was doing and that I should not post on the forums.
Now think of me whatever you like, but that sort of hurt me, and gave me the impression that this is a hostile comminity. Now, I’m not trying to expose you @mayer or any of that stupid stuff.
In fact I greatly appreciate your contributions to the community. I just want to know if everybody is like this and if I should look elsewhere or if I should stay and try to learn more about computers.
I also want to mention that blowing up people’s inboxes with downvotes and insults is not a good way to grow the community.
Tbh I’m just a dumb teenager but I want to be less dumb, and this seems like a wonderful place to learn about all kinds of things. Thanks for reading my dumb, long-winded rant, and I hope that I can learn from this community so that I actually can know what I’m talking about.
Is this a good question?
3 Comments
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by iRobot
@chanute now would be a good time to jump into this discussion. It’s all about you and we need to hear your thoughts on this.
by oldturkey03
@chanute ay what are you doing now? This is a discussion that was started by you. You really should consider some netiquette. Why are you accepting your own answer that did not contribute to the discussion? It is a great goal and good commitment but did it really solve the discussion? Think about it.....
Nobody on here really cares about points but we care about etiquette (the customary code of polite behavior in society or among members of a particular profession or group).
by oldturkey03