Your Thoughts Please!!!

[mattKnight]

I am little concerned that I may have p*ss*d someone in this forum off!
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I have posted a couple of questions over the past few weeks which have attracted no attention. Why is this? Does anyone have any ideas?
[ol][li]Are they phrased badly or not clear what I am asking?
[li]Are they in the wrong forum?[/li]
[li]Are they too obscure or difficult?[/li]
[li]Are the too easy and I should be able to resolve them myself?[/li]
[li]Do I not thank people enough for their time?[/li]
[li]Do I contribute enough to the forum?[/b]
[li]Have I been &quot;inappropriate&quot; in any response? (including attempts at humour)?[/li]
[li]Have that been posted a a &quot;bad&quot; time, being lost in the high activity?[/li]
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OR WHAT?

(links to faq222-2244 are probably unneccessary)
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Take Care

Matt
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

 

[ca8msm]

Matt,

Having had a look at your posts you do seem to have a few unanswered questions.

I do not think that they are phrased badly, in the wrong forum or have anything to do with relationships between yourself and any other tek-tip members.

Personally a lot of your questions have been of a higher standard than I could possibly help with and I expect this will be the case with a lot of other members. However, there are people who have had a lot more experience in VB who will be able to suggest something (I would imagine so anyway). It may just be that they were posted at a time when these people were not on the board.

 

[johnwm]

Just reviewing your last 2 questions, I'd say an equal share of (3) and (8)

I had a look at the specifics of the sub-classing question, but ran out of time.

It sometimes looks pretty gloomy when you're between jobs, but the upside is that you have more time to answer questions here!

Good luck


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[zemp]

matt, first off I have shared your frustration on couple of occasions. I found that I have gotten no responses on questions that were very specific. Perhaps too specific for a general VB forum. I tried rephrasing my question and after a couple days I looked for a &quot;better&quot; forum (More specific for my question) and got my problem solved.

Here are the reasons I don't respond to a post.
1. I don't know the answer or can't add anything new.
2. I don't understand the question. Sometimes I ask for clarification.



Thanks and Good Luck!

zemp

 

[Cresby]

well you got my attention. How to appeal to people? Who knows. Sometimes questions are too complex for the postees &quot;today&quot; and maybe you ought to refresh them by re-reading them aday or two later and maybe adding a point. On the Mudcat Cafe we often just post

refresh

I take a laid-back concilliatry approach about replies, a mindset that hopefully shows in my posts. A sort of thankyou in advance if you like - but I had to learn to.

but you can't please em all, all of the time, with everything. AND some people are put-off answering by adverse comments from other postees who maybe have taken too narrow a view of the potential user/situation blah blah blah.

 

[Hypetia]

Matt,
I second what zemp said. I read both your posts and did not replied because;[ol][li]I don't have a clear idea how to 'globally' subclass the said dialog box.[li]The ColumnHeaders in version 5.0 ocx behave differently from those in version 6.0. Both follow a different measurement scale. So ListView1.ColumnHeaders(1).Width = 1000 will result in different widths depending upon the ocx version used to create the listview(5 or 6). This is what I have observed. That's why I decided to keep silent.[/ol]As far as attention or attraction is concerned, I would like to give you my own example. I joined this forum in february and have asked just 3 questions. (2 in this very forum and 1 in another forum.)
Unfortunately, I did not get a single answer in this forum except a couple of answers in the thread215-513067 to date.
But it does not mean that people are bound to answer my questions. I am still thankful to the readers who spend their time reading my posts even if they did not respond.
May be my questions remain unanswered due to the same reasons that you mentioned.

So good luck and cheer up.

 

[mattKnight]

all

Thank you for your replies! I guess I can put the teddies back in the pram now!

johnwm
Many apologies, I hadn't updated my profile to show that I am now working. I don't have as much time as I had previously to offer answers.

zemp
I am glad that you recognise my frustration, but I am sorry to hear that you have suffered it too.

>Here are the reasons I don't respond to a post.
>1. I don't know the answer or can't add anything new.

I wish that more people would read the whole thread before posting an identical solution to a previous poster.

2. I don't understand the question. Sometimes I ask for clarification.

It's good to get additional information

cresby
AFAIK, &quot;bumping&quot; posts is frowned on as impolite (within this forum at least)

Again, I agree with the otehr points you raise

Hypetia


>I don't have a clear idea how to 'globally' subclass the said dialog box.
Fair enough, I only know how to do it in theory...

>The ColumnHeaders in version 5.0 ocx behave differently from those in version 6.0. Both follow a different measurement scale. So ListView1.ColumnHeaders(1).Width = 1000 will result in different widths depending upon the ocx version used to create the listview(5 or 6). This is what I have observed. That's why I decided to keep silent.

That I didn't know!

>But it does not mean that people are bound to answer my questions.

I quite agree, but I don't think it unreasonable to be suprised when multiple threads remain unresponded to.

in summary, Thanks for the responses they are, as always, appreciated.

BTW the two posts refered to above are not the only ones to attract no responses

Good night all



Take Care

Matt
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

 

[PraveenMenon]

Dear Matt,

Hope you are doing fine and good.

I just thought you needed a few words.

I really dont think the questions you posted were obscure, but i really think the gurus here answer question that are 100% known to them, but some times to completely reply a thread, it needs a bit research on the person who's posting . Since none is having that much time to spend on responses and they think you will get a response from someone else, i consider all of your unreplied posts had a little bit of doubt in them, and may be people thought its &quot;unsafe&quot; to answer them.

Am also posting a response to your ListView column width question. All the best to you in your job.

Best Regards,
Praveen Menon

All the Best
Praveen Menon
pcmin@rediffmail.com

 

[strongm]

Just a slight change to the subject: I think this works two ways; over the last few days (and I can only pealk personally) I've given a number of potential solutions that took me a certain amount of time and effort to provide - with no response from the original poster.

Now I don't really care whether I get a star pr not (hey, I've got more tham my fair share), but it would be nice if people at least said &quot;Thanks for the effort&quot; even if the solution didn't help.

i.e. I'm stating the same problem, just from the other side.

 

[mattKnight]

>Now I don't really care whether I get a star pr not (hey, I've got more tham my fair share),

if you really have got too many, I'll take some off your hands

>but it would be nice if people at least said &quot;Thanks for the effort&quot; even if the solution didn't help.

I quite agree, its a b*gg*r when people don't let you know when something works out...

Take Care

Matt
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

 

[Cresby]

mattKnight

I would regard bumping as impolite only if is it was excessive (more than once at least) - not all postees visit regularly and how far do we go back when we visit? If &quot;bumping&quot; is an issue the &quot;re-read and clarify&quot; wheeze refers.

 

[ca8msm]

With regards to bumping, I agree that it could be impolite if done excessively. I sometimes find that if posts are not on the first page there is less chance of me lloking at them and possibly helping someone. However, if it is only done once then personally I don't see it being a problem.

I especially agree with strongm's, comments about users thanking other users if they are helped. I have been helped many times by a number of people on this board and I always give a star to them if they have helped (or even if I see a helpful solution on someone else's thread that I think could be useful to me in the future). I do tend to do this rather than reply to the thread (which I probably should start doing) but it is at least some sort of appreciation for the help given.

I myself have tried to help people quite a bit over the last few days and haven't always had any acknowlegement back. In my opinion people are generally more happy to help if they are given thanks for past work so I agree it is probably in everyone's interest to reply with a simple &quot;Thanks for the effort&quot;.

 

[johnwm]

If question-askers continually ask questions without acknowledging answers, I tend to bring that fact to their notice (hopefully politely).

I will often refer them to faq222-2244, and hope that they take particular note of para 15


________________________________________________________________
If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ222-2244 first

'People who live in windowed environments shouldn't cast pointers.'