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Originally Posted by DareDad
It's easy as a long time community member to forget what it's like to not know the community's rules. CD does a pretty good job informing new users with the sticky posts but as an "older user" it's my responsibility to be gentle with anyone who has a post count under 10 and it's important for the new members to understand that lurking an learning the community before posting is a smart idea.
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Sometimes we forget that we belong to a particular culture that other people aren't familiar with yet. That can be a good thing or a bad thing. I used Windows PCs for years before I bought my first Mac. I found a large Mac forum and posted a question that went something like "In Windows I could do ___ and that was really handy, how do I do this on a Mac?" EVERY answer I got was a condescending variation of "we don't do that around here". Multiple people tried to tell me why I was doing it wrong, and if I would only adapt my ways to Apple's ways and see the light, I would be happier. At least one person said "if that's what you want then go back to Windows". Not a friendly community at all -- until you conform to their culture. But I think we all sometimes send that kind of message, whether we intend to or not.