Please Only Answer Questions if you know the Answer!

[BrianBSL]

Better to let someone know that you are not 100% positive about the answer you are giving them, then to give them an answer that you think is 100% correct and you turn out to be wrong (as that could be far more harmful).

Just my $0.02.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by BrianBSL

Better to let someone know that you are not 100% positive about the answer you are giving them, then to give them an answer that you think is 100% correct and you turn out to be wrong (as that could be far more harmful).

Just my $0.02.

Not really. His (entirely valid) point is that it's better to just not post at all.

[aaeamdar]

Originally Posted by Cory

Not really. His (entirely valid) point is that it's better to just not post at all.

Jumping into the fray of public, I'll add my own, mostly counter to what is posted here.

Though I may not have extensive CD experience, I have used forums quite a lot for looking up information for various purposes. Part of the hard part of using them is (no offense) that any idiot with an internet connection can post in them. This is just what forums are. There are various systems (such as reputation on CD) that help to determine how knowledgeable someone in the community is. However, the bottom line is that your results when searching a forum will be only slightly better than your results using a "poll-your-audience" method on Millionaire. Again, that's just a fact of forums.

When people post things saying, "I think you can use 4 CIM motors but I'm not sure" there is some information that can be gleaned out of that. Smart forum usage means that you take everything with a grain of salt. However, if everyone says "I think (x) but I'm not sure" then they are probably right.

Everyone is free to pay very close attention to these types of posts or ignore them completely, as they please. It's our job as responsible and intelligent forum users to pick the good from the bad and base it around our own knowledge.

If someone were to ask an incredibly obscure rules question, especially if it were (to a certain extent) interpretable, and only people who were absolutely sure posted a response, that would not be as helpful as a general concensus from the community as a whole.

Thanks

[paulcd2000]

Go aaeamdar!!!!!

You are absolutly right. If you only want perfect responses, you aren't going to get any, because no one wants to look in the rules for each and every thing. People have the right to post how they want, and you shouldn't restrict them.

Also note that not everyone is perfect, and this definetly isn't a perfect world.